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...wives. And we call on Mr. Villard to present facts which would support the statement that "a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund" that the mouth of the Harvard lecturer be stopped. Does the writer imagine that our graduates are bereft of loyalty to their Alma Mater? Does he believe that more differences of opinion would stand in the way of their contributing to the College fund? It is astounding, to say the least, that Mr. Villard should allow such hearsay to be published as fact in his magazine...
Above all, and what is of the utmost consequence to every nation, large and small, Germany has been so bereft of all military and naval power that, if the provisions of the Treaty are carried out--and the guarantees that they will be are adequate--the scourge of militarism can no longer hold away over the civilized world. With all the other great powers united in a League of Nations and Germany in a state of complete impotence, there is great cause to hope that armaments may be persistently reduced. With greater belief in a safe future, we may turn...
...Matthews, a Harvard Junior, who needs the reward in order to gain the hand of Rose Windows, a beautiful Boston girl. She, however, immediately falls in love with Rameses, now released with all his fatal attractions. Not only Matthews, but all the other men in the comedy are soon bereft of their sweethearts and become no less anxious to get Rameses, back into his mummy case than they were before to get him out of it. By a clever ruse their efforts are finally successful and the play ends with the various couples happily reunited...
...Truth bereft...
Truth widowed and bereft...