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...rich students, and a trip through the new Freshman Dormitories might have corrected some of the ideas of this son of the young and growing West in regard to Harvard's devotion to the rickety old dormitories of a former century. The comical irritation which he shares with other Westerners over the "affectations" of our Eastern speech might have also been tempered had he but stopped to consider the counter irritation which an occasional raucousness of the Western voice often produces upon more fastidious Eastern ears...
Because of the existing military situation President Lowell has cancelled the Western trip which he expected to make this month, and will remain in Cambridge instead. He was to have delivered the Charter Day address at the University of California, and to have visited several of the Harvard clubs of the West...
During the next three weeks Professor Raoul Blanchard, exchange professor from the University of Grenoble, will give a course of six public lectures on "The European War on the Western Front." These lectures will be in French, and will be held under the auspices of the Lowell Institute in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston. Professor Blanchard is one of the greatest of French geographers, and these lectures offer an unusual opportunity to members of the University, especially to students of French and of Military Science. They will be given at 5 o'clock on Tuesday and Friday afternoons...
...opinion expressed by modern social psychologists that organized human intelligence will eventually be able to avert the calamity of war. And I am also of the conviction that, from the point of view of the Western Allies, this war is actually being waged against war. But it must be apparent to all thoughtful people that the precious inheritance of Anglo-Saxon democracy is now at stake; that America must be prepared to fight for it, as she has fought for it before. I believe that universal service is the fairest and most democratic method of preparedness, both military and industrial...
...evening two dramas, a six-reel Charlie Chaplin comedy and an animated "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon by Bud Fisher have been secured. The special attraction will be Vivian Rich in "Enchantment," with an all-star company. In addition, Louise Lovely will appear with a star cast in a Western drama entitled, "Blood Money," and Charlie Chaplin will appear at his best in "Shanhaied...