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...parable to remember. Three times the Faculty voted to make the service voluntary; twice their motion was thrown down by the Governing Board, once through the hostility of no less a person than Emerson. When it came before the Board for the third time, Phillips Brooks was its chief antagonist; but he agreed, open-mindedly, that if the earnest students were shown to favor it, he would withdraw his objections. Their opinions, vigorously proclaimed, proved unanimous; and he was quick to help bring about the change. Perhaps the present case has little analogy, but, at any rate, the discussion will...
...demonstration is a little too simple. Chancellor Day was not only an antagonist of Roosevelt during Roosevelt's trust-busting days, he was also anti-Wilson, anti-League, anti-experiment of every kind. He ruled Syracuse with a Roman discipline. He believed implicitly in the Constitution of the Fathers. He believed in the established order. Briefly, he was a reactionary; and a reactionary born and not made. It may be demonstrable that Mr. Archbold supported Syracuse because he sympathized with the opinions of Chancellor Day. But it would take temerity even now to maintain that Chancellor Day held those...
Almost everyone has dabbled in chess at some time or other. Many still play, usually against one steady antagonist whose methods they penetrate and whose methods they penetrate and whose game accordingly becomes tiresome. The club affords an opportunity for any member of the University of contending weekly against adversaries of varied skill, of playing in matches against different metropolitan clubs every Friday, and of representing the University in the Yale meet at New Haven and in the Intercollegiates at New York...
...Mendoza fight. The drawing is entitled "Foul Play; or Humphries and Johnson a Match for Mendoza." This extraordinary match was fought at Odihams in Hampshire on Jan. 9, 1788. After 25 minutes' contest, Mendoza by his superior skill is seen carrying off the honors of the day from his antagonist, when Johnson, after having revived Humphries by pouring cold water on his stomach, and finding him still weak and staggering, intervened...
Foch is a worthy antagonist of the great conqueror of the Masurian Lakes. His quick, decisive thrusts like his famous flanking attack on the Marne, are a match for the ponderous strokes of Hindenburg. His reserve army rushed swiftly into place at the Yser, saved the Channel ports. Though Foch is noted chiefly for his boldness and speed and striking personal appeal, his policy is always sound: Joffre has called him the greatest strategist in Europe...