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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the outbreak of the war and immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British...
...Academy, where he took a profited part in athletics. In his freshman at Yale he was captain of his team, played left guard, and since that time has played regularly on the Yale elect Captain Black resides in New York City, and he weighs 210 pounds, is 22 year age,, and his height is 5 feet 9 inch...
...individual oarsman, his work was just as phenomenal. When he was 19 years of age he entered a single scull race in a boat made by himself, which weighed over 80 pounds. Yet he won the race by a distance of more than a half-mile over his nearest competitor. This race marked the beginning of 88 successive victories as an amateur. Then he became a professional, and started a series of 46 contests marred only by seven defeats. An unfortunate sunstroke in May, 1879, ended his competitive career...
...Hollis Street Theatre for Mme. Sarah Bernhardt. They are both heroic figures of the war. Captain Koenig brought the first undersea merchant vessel across the ocean in the face of tremendous danger. His is one of the greatest scientific triumphs of all time. Mme. Bernhardt in spite of her age and a severe physical disability, is still the Divine Sarah of half a century past. She is acting in America to help the country she loves. Captain Koenig has risked his life for his Fatherland. The nations they represent are fighting to the death, but heroism is international...
Professor Percival Lowell '76, of Boston, brother of President Lowell, and one of the world's most distinguished astronomers, died at his observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., yesterday of apoplexy. He was 62 years of age...