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Cars will run on Western avenue both before and after the game as fast as the demand requires. Arrangements have been made for extra service on the Watertown, Arlington, and Viaduct lines...
...none too well known to graduates and undergraduates alike that the name of Harvard University is becoming, along the Western battle-front in Europe, synonymous with generosity, courage, and devotion to humane service. The two hospitals of the Ambulance Americaine in France are supported by American money and operated by American surgical skill, which has won for them pre-eminent place, recognized by the military and medical authorities on the Continent. Harvard has already contributed a surgical unit from her medical school for a three months tour of service, and other surgeons who are Harvard men are now there...
...doubtful. Two teams, hitherto unbeaten this year, will clash today, Pittsburg opposing Washington and Jefferson. To those remaining in Cambridge, the Dartmouth-Penn, game is of greatest interest. Dartmouth should have no trouble in downing the unusually weak Penn. eleven. Today is an open date for most of the western conference teams. Chicago goes out of its field to play the strong Haskell Indians, while Ohio State and Iowa face Indiana and Purdue respectively...
...dozen years the number of undergraduates has remained practically stationary. To be sure, there is nothing alarming or even serious in this fact alone; for mere numbers should never be an end of higher education. Of great importance, however, is the failure of the College to grow in its western representation. One of Harvard's ideals is to be a national university; and this means that it must draw its students, as President Eliot has pointed out, from all classes of society and all sections of the country. This means a national atmosphere in the College itself, as well...
What is the reason for this failure to grow nationally? Professor Munro in the current Graduates' Magazine explains the greater increase in size of western universities on the ground that, because western states are growing more rapidly it is only natural that their own colleges should reap the benefit. Obviously this, while it has explanatory value, cannot reconcile the College to the danger of becoming a local institution. The activities of the Harvard Clubs throughout the country and of the now defunct Territorial Clubs show that Harvard men are not content with explaining the phenomenon. It is the opinion...