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...laborers was defeated. Said Colonel Prettyman, Conservative for Chelmsford: "Why, our forefathers had only two baths in their lifetime?one when they were born and the other when they died?and they took neither of them voluntarily." The New York Herald says: "It's all a myth about the Englishman and his inevitable bath...
Taking "The Situation in Europe" as the subject of his speech on January 25, Mr. Philip Kerr, former private secretary to Lloyd George, declared that America could not remain aloof, since Mr. Kerr was followed by another Englishman. Mr. G. L. Mallery, a noted mountain climber, who gave a vivid description of the perils encountered by the party which recently attempted to reach the submit of Mount Everest. The vividness of his narrative was heightened by many lantern slides taken on the expedition...
Past History. The origin of the Standard Oil monopoly, for practical monopoly it still is, was the foundation of a refinery in Cleveland by an Englishman named Samuel Andrews in 1862. John D. Rockefeller invested $4,000 in the venture. In 1867 the concern was organized under the name of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler. In 1870 it was incorporated as the Standard Oil Com-pany of Ohio, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The parties interested were John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Steven V. Harkness and William Rockefeller...
...such an up-hill struggle makes America prize the victory higher than the cup and title. It will put another chapter in the records of American sportsmanship. The dogged determination which the American golfers displayed was as great as the traditional dogged determination of the most determined Englishman. Although one may still be so benighted as not to understand the meaning of "stymie" or "birdie" or "chip shot", neither Briton nor American who has heard the story of the contest will withhold a hand of sincere congratulation for the victorious team...
...Morley and the English visitor, then, offer two quite different suggestions: one wants pleasure in the work, the other self-development. Yet the two are closely related. The present objective as the Englishman recognized, is too often simply distinction. If a student's choice of activities were guided by his own tastes, if his aim were the satisfaction or the personal profit which he could find in an interest for its own sake, many of America's collegiate difficulties would disappear. Recently Yale has shown manifestations of some such renaissance, and here, too, the tendency is more and more toward...