Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been the traditional and iron-clad policy of the Corporation to allow no propagandist to speak in a College building. Mrs. Skeffington is considered a propagandist. In accordance with a rule established some years before she came to this country, a rule established entirely independent of Ireland or England or the war, the place of her address was shifted to the Union. The latter is the customary meeting place of the University, where all opinions may be voiced unofficially...
...reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England by knighthood, France by membership in one of the famous learned societies. Efforts have frequently been made here to establish some such governmental honor, but Congress has always considered it out of harmony with the principles of a democracy...
Over a thousand Brown alumni are expected to gather at the annual Sons of Brown dinner at the Copley-Plaza on Tuesday, January 23, at 6.30 o'clock. This year, through the co-operation of the several Brown University alumni associations in New England, the event will not be confined to Boston men, but will be open to every alumnus in New England. Charles Evans Hughes has promised to be present and give an address. President W. H. Faunce, of Brown University, will speak in behalf of the university, and Governor Samuel W. McCall is expected to represent the Commonwealth...
Henry Richard Deighton Simpson '18, of Port Chastier, N. Y., a lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, was killed while flying in an airplane at Joyce Green, England on December 20, 1916. He was buried with military honors at Crayford...
Simpson prepared at Eton and entered the University in 1914. As soon as the war brooked out he went to England and entered the Sawdust Military College from which he was gazetted to the Sixth Dragoons. Soon afterwards he had himself transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and after receiving his training at Uphaven in Welshire, he was sent to the front where he did brilliant work for ten months. He then returned to England on leave. While there he was severely injured in saving the life of a fellow-of-flyer in a runaway accident, and was laid...