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They are: William A. Beardslee '37, Cyrus C. De Coster '37, MacDonald Deming '36, Robert W. Furlong '37, Lemuel B. Hunter '37, Hubert H. Nexon '37, Theodore C. Osborne '37, Theodore H. Rome ocC, Walter B. Rosen '37, William A. Salant '36, Robert E. Shalen '37, William V. Smith '37, Sheldon C. Sommers '37, Arthur Szathmary '38, Peter R. Viereck '37, and Charles C. Wright...
...PEACE WITH NAPOLEON!-General de Caulaincourt-Morrow...
...four o'clock in the afternoon of April 4, 1814, Armand de Caulaincourt, Napoleon's dour, devoted Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived at Essonnes, on the road to Paris. He carried the Emperor's abdication in favor of his son, and instructions for a project so audacious it had a good chance of succeeding. The Allied Armies had taken Paris four days prior. Headed by Talleyrand, a movement for the restoration of the Bourbons was gaining strength. Only Napoleon could visualize a plan of action in this "hour of his vast reverses." The situation...
...remains interesting through its 500 pages. Beginning with Waterloo, it clips along like a good melodrama through Napoleon's flight, his success in winning the friendship of one antagonistic English jailer after another. A strange bunch of gifted eccentrics followed him. There was tiny, weasel-faced, unctuous Emmanuel de Las Cases, who was 49, three years older than Napoleon, and who followed Napoleon because he wanted to win immortality by being his Boswell. He was so open in his admiration for the Emperor that his hard-eyed rivals called him "Rapture." Another follower was Charles Tristan de Montholon...
There is perhaps no deed of Cyrano de Bergerac, that redoubtable French anticipation and compound of Babe Ruth, George Washington and Dr. Sarkas, which has so endeared him to the public as his rustication of Montfleury, the contemporary ham. And who has not cursed whatever gods may be, during the torture of any especially unfortunate and protracted turn, that the spirit of Cyrano was not reborn in him, and that he could not produce a sword from beneath the seat which didn't even have enough room for his knees, and drive the offender headlong from the stage...