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Back in the thirties rugby was an accepted sport in Harvard-Yale-Princeton environs. The high point of the rugby season in those days was the annual jaunt to Bermuda over Easter vacation, when English teams vied for an "international collegiate championship" with their American equals. The Bermuda Athletic Association served as general host at the parties and banquets and likewise had an interest in the exchange of trophies...
Common Defense. What Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King had done at their Easter conference in 1941 was to solemnize the economic marriage of the U.S. and Canada. Mackenzie King had used martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...
Miss Lenighan's appearance with the Workshoppers will take place sometime before Easter...
...committee headed by Michael B. Rothenberg '49 will undertake a program making it possible for foreign students to stay with American families over Easter vacation, the Council decided...
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger. "This man," wrote Yeats later, "I had deemed a drunken, vainglorious lout." And soon after the birth of their son, Maud and Major MacBride were separated. After the Easter Rising in 1916, the major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts...