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Side Horse.--Won by Brink (M. I. T.); second, K. Campbell '21 (H); third, L. H. Nickels...
...ardent followers set forth in print for the promotion of their ideals and for the progress of the world! Gradually we have become enlightened concerning the evils which have held us in their yoke and which have surely brought us to the brink of ruin and destruction, while civilization and progress have been unknown. Indeed, it is high time to stay our backward course, and, by suppressing evils, start the world forward...
...America of a year ago was a different nation from the one we now know. On the brink of a great struggle, it had made no preparations for war. It was a nation of individuals, divided by a hundred varying interests and cares, peaceful and contented in its material prosperity, and complacent in its traditions of democracy and the freedom of men, a sort of Babylonian boarding house of enlightened beings, living in a happiness which was sooner or later bound to meet the rocks of the vital problems of the world's life. All that is changed today...
Armed neutrality certainly has its drawbacks and dangers; notably that of leading us perilously near to the brink of war. However, even though we go as far as arming our ships and convoying them, sinking submarines on sight: even though Germany declares war, we should on no account declare war on our part. It is the rights of neutrals to traverse the high seas in time of war that we wish to establish. If we stop at armed neutrality the issue is always clear. The warfare which might ensue would be of a purely defensive sort, and at the same...
...recommendation of the Committee on the Frederick Sheldon Fund, the following Graduate Sheldon Fellowships for the year 1916-17 were awarded: in Lumbering, Howard Clyde Baldwin 2G.B.; in Mathematics. Raymond Woodward Brink 3G., Joseph Leonard Walsh '16; in Zology, William John Crozier 4G.; in Philosophy, Tenney Lombard Davis 3G., Victor Frizt Lenzen 3G.; in Geology, Donald Hamilton McLaughlin 2G.; in Comparative Literature, Amos Phillips McMahon 3G.; in the New Testament. Norman Burdett Nash 2Dv.; in the Classies, John Joseph Savage 4G.; in Romance Languages, Albert Abraham Shapiro 3G.; in Chemistry, Louis Plack Hammett...