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Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
...judged more by what it publishes than by any strict adherence to the high purpose of its founders. It was established, more or less, for the publication of books of a scholastic nature which would not ordinarily find a publisher--or maybe a market. If it had clung closely to this stipulation it might have soon found itself in the need of a patron such as are sought for operas or for "art for art's sake". But to forestall such a prospect, however remote, the Alumni Bulletin has furnished a very good recommendation which deserves more attention...
...public speeches. When invited to speak, he said what he had to say. As early as 1918, even before the Versailles Conference assembled, he told the American Bar Association that the most important result of the War should be "the establishment of a league to enforce peace." He clung to that declaration and has never left it. In September, 1922, he wrote to President Harding: "I shall be 65 years old the 18th of this month. ... To the end that I may have time to read many books, ... to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes...
...insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith, 39; Cummins, 29; Couzens, 6 (38 necessary to elect). There were 22 members absent, nearly all of whom were paired...
...example: the feeding of college students does not sound like an especially promising or engaging topic, but throughout the seventy-five pages devoted to "The History of Commons" our attention is held to the broader educational and disciplinary interests involved. We are reminded how persistently the Harvard tradition has clung to its English heritage in distinction from, and often in opposition to, the influence of the European continental methods. Eating in common has always been treated here as a part of that partriarchal discipline embodied in the English college, and Mr. Batchelder shows us how steadily the government of Harvard...