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...preparations for war in the Pacic, the naval holiday, an agreement relative to the use of poison gas and submarines these are some of the things which the present Conference has accomplished. What wonder then, that there is such a prevalent feeling of "bien-etre"? As with the Englishmen of 1763, hope for the future is today on all hands apparent...
...monograph, "Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination", Walter de la Mare quotes from a letter written to him by an American friend, "We over here can't have all the simple, lovely and solitary things of which Englishmen write. It helps so much to think of them as they are in England...
...always is an English school history of America or an American school history of England a satisfactory guide. How many Englishmen know how the thousands of American prisoners were treated on Long Island in the war of the revolution? How many Americans know how the captain of the Shannon was wounded and doomed to a life of pain in the duel with the Chesapeake? There are far greater things of which the history should be known. It is only since the world war revealed something of the strength and the resources of the United States that the younger people...
Viscount Bryce, in appealing for closer relations between collegiate America and England, called attention to the fact that while America is well represented in the English universities, the number of Englishmen studying here is decidedly smaller. The explanation of this condition is simply the greater effort on the part of the English to attract Americans--the Rhodes bequest, for example...
...close five set match, the scores being 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, C. P. Holmes '22 and Wheeler of Yale were easy for Hepburn of Oxford and Lowry of Cambridge, the sets going 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in favor of the Englishmen...