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...Gettysburg Longstreet, as usual, disagreed with Lee's plan: he was against attacking, wanted to outflank Meade, get between him and Washington and let Meade do the attacking. Overruled, he turned sulkily defeatist. Critics have claimed he lost the battle by disregarding Lee's orders to attack early in the morning of the second day. By afternoon, when he finally moved, the Union left had been reinforced and it was too late. Biographers Eckenrode and Conrad reluctantly absolve Longstreet, reluctantly admit that over-polite Lee did not order an early attack, simply suggested it. When it was reported...
...most logical one. On the one hand it offers, and this is based on more than our own opinion, sufficient conditioning work to conduct the sport safely. On the other hand it preserves that principles upon which the presidents' agreement was founded, preserves it in the face of the defeatist attitude toward this ideal which was so characteristically expressed in one of our contemporary college dailies as "A Noble Experiment That Failed". --Daily Princetonian
Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College." In the last issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Phillips describes his dismissal from the "Hick College" to which he had devoted "the most vigorous twenty years of his life." Continuing in his defeatist vein, he still praises Harvard whose liberal thought, inspiration, and thorough education cost...
...like a shot and suspended its holy vow for that day. But it promptly returned to its own Republican nomenclature the following morning and recently it carried a cartoon showing Uncle Sam rather pitifully reminding the President again that the name is Hoover, not Boulder. The cartoonist, apparently a defeatist, depicted the President as oblivious of the request...
Captain Dick Boys will lead his Crimson cagers against Amherst tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to garner another win for the revivified Feslermen. With a League victory behind them, the defeatist complex that has been apparent to a greater or lesser degree for some years should be missing, and the Harvard morale should have risen several points...