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Christopher George Krogness, Jr., of Oak Park, Ill., has been appointed captain of the Freshman track team, the appointment to take effect at once. Krogness, who is the best all-around athlete on the squad, prepared at Exeter, where he was prominent in track and field athletics. Though he has had little chance this spring to show his ability, he made a record for himself last winter by winning the high jump in the B. A. A. meet...
General Sir Archibald Hunter told me at Aldershot that the men who were most punctilious about saluting were the men who were making the best records under fire at the front. --Boston Transcript...
...view of the altered conditions of military service consequent upon the entrance of the United States in the war, this Faculty believes that the best conservation of the resources of the country for the prosecution of the war demands that students, save in exceptional cases, should persist in the faithful discharge of their college duties until they reach the age of twenty years and nine months, when they may enter on the regular training required for a commission...
...Lauzanne will speak on "France Under Arms." He will tell of the spirit of his country during the past four years. As editor of the Paris Matin, one of the best-known European newspapers, M. Lauzanne has become one of the leading figures of French politics. He is in this country on a mission to show the people of the United States the view that her ally has taken in this war. In addition to being a prominent editor, the speaker is an officer of the Legion of Honor. Tonight's lecture will be open to the public...
...oversubscription to the present loan will be the best way to show that we are backing England to the limit and that, fresh and powerful, we will keep the pace that she, the veteran...