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...practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS TO THE FRESHMEN | 11/25/1916 | See Source »

...pacifist has a message. No matter how well prepared we might be, there would still remain the problems indicated in such phrases as "A World Court," "World Reconciliation," "The World State,"--titles of courses to be given at the Conference. Let us not scorn the "visionaries"; for ideas eventually conquer the world. Let us rather hear their message sympathetically; and then, inso much as it is good; let us work to build the public opinion which will make it effective. It is news of peace at this time that is most thrilling,--not that from the front; talk and thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE. | 6/15/1915 | See Source »

...would seem from recent events that the Lampoon is in search of new publics to conquer. Not content with having just captured a page in one of the soberest of weekly papers and with occasionally drawing blood from the Crimson, its editors have taken a prominent place in the current number of the Advocate. Mr. Mechem has written a comedy which is good enough to make us forget most of the time the absurdity of the situation. Mr. Moise has called this satire "In Memoriam." The title explains itself as we read how la Comtesse du Porc-Mouton presented...

Author: By C. D. W., | Title: Funny Men Wax Literary | 5/13/1914 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the University Dramatic Association Annie Russell's Old English Comedy Company gave two performances, "The School for Scandal," and "She Stoops to Conquer" last Tuesday evening. On Wednesday evening the Kneisel Quartet gave its first concert of the season. The 1914 Class votes have been compiled. Cornish was voted most popular and best all-round athlete, Ketcham was voted to be most admired, and Bishop the most original...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAPPENINGS OF WEEK AT YALE | 1/28/1914 | See Source »

...control of the Christians. Yet this region as it is today is not a country which is fitted to produce on the modern scale. Rivers run through it into the sea, but in the dry season they become simply dried up river beds. So Italy, in undertaking to conquer Tripoli and use it as a colony, must be prepared to spend years in introducing modern methods and systems of cultivation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Furlong's Lecture on Tripoli | 10/25/1911 | See Source »

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