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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...likely to plunge Europe again into war than to keep it at peace. The interspersion of the racial elements in Russia, Austria and the Balkans makes their separation impossible. Bulgars and Serbs, Magyars and Ukrainians do not inhabit separate provinces, but separate villages or farms. Their division would be almost as difficult as to divide the South politically between the white and colored races, or Wisconsin between the descendents of Germans and those of Englishmen. And if a peace congress dominated by nationalistic principles should erect new countries in southern Europe with boundaries based on slight numerical superiority of particular...
...studying "out of course" met with a far greater percentage of decrease than any of the regular classes, losing almost 50 percent of their number, as compared with a loss of 25 percent for the Seniors...
...decision of Eastern universities to resume intercollegiate baseball games this spring and the almost simultaneous announcement that the leading tennis tournaments will be revived during the approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged...
...result of yesterday's unusual snowfall, the annual winter track carnival which was scheduled to begin on that date, was postponed until this afternoon, when the events will be run off in almost the same order as was arranged for yesterday. In accordance with its previous announcement, the track management states that late entries will be allowed, if the competitors have recently passed their strength tests. As it was impossible to use the board track, the field events which might have been run in the cage were also deferred, and will all take place today. The high and broad jumps...
Archbishop Lang, who is the first of the 89 Archbishops of York to cross the seas to America, spoke in New York on Sunday before two large congregations which filled the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to capacity, and in both cases crowds almost as large as the audiences themselves were turned away long before the service began. The Archbishop is a Fellow and Dean of Divinity of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was honorable chaplain to Queen Victoria. He was appointed to his present high position of Archbishop of York...