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During the Great War Colonel Eustace served as guide to the British Expeditionary Force which marched on German East Africa. It was largely by dint of his own skill in piloting the army through the jungle that the British were able to attack and capture the German colony from the rear...
...large delegation from the Rowing Committee followed the shell and Dr. Howe expressed himself as well pleased with the work-out. Although rowing alone, Crew A, starting at the Cambridge Boat Club, kept a high beat throughout the early stretches of the course, and by dint of a well-timed spurt near the finish went over the line in good form with a time record which is all the more encouraging in view of the fact that it is the initial spin over a four-mile stretch...
...mindful of their own past will not indulge a sense of superior virtue in contemplating the outbreak of professionalism in Middle Western colleges. New times, new temptations! If ever Putnam, Conn., vied with Worcester, Mass., at professional football, putting $100,000 to the touch and hoping to win by dint of star players imported from Yale and Harvard respectively, the fact is nowhere recorded. But this is the sort of thing that took place between Carlinville and Taylorville, lining the pockets of players from Notre Dame and the University of Illinois. Yet still there is no occasion for the attitude...
...without a dint of quilty conscience have we younger graduates and lingering students of Harvard seen the recent editorial comment in regard to the present tendencies of thought in the student body at the University. We have been constantly reminded of the ecumenical wave of "radicalism" that is sweeping the undergraduate off his intellectual feet. We have heard with deadening conviction the results of the diagnosis of students' marks. We have almost recoiled in despair at the revival of the old question of social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been...
...these days of garbled despatches, of flaring headlines and imaginative write-up men, we cannot be too careful in sampling the multifarious and savory morsels dealt out to us by the public press. Under the skilful hand of inventive genius-by dint of adding a detail here and a touch of color there-assault becomes murder, a riot rebellion, until all sense of perspective is lost. When interest in European or World politics leads us to discuss the problems of the day, let us be sure we know whereof we speak, Our daily newspapers publish much propaganda that is American...