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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish you much pleasure this year; but only in so far as pleasure is compatible with our own comfort. Of course no strictly honest Yale man could express himself of any other desire than to have you go back to Cambridge well beaten. On the other hand, we really do want the game to be a good one, both close and thrilling. The fact that odds are approximately even indicates that such will be the case. Although even odds give no feeling of comfort or security to either party, they unquestionably furnish a stimulating excitement to the nervous system...
...life, for casual comments, for detached thoughts that would not be improved by reaching symmetrical harmony, vers libre may be quite in keeping. But that is only saying that for certain types of verse the best form is a lack of form. There is always the dangerous temptation to express in free verse thoughts that might be more perfectly expressed otherwise. And it is that danger that has led some unkind people to characterize free verse as a vehicle for half-baked thoughts...
...view of the interest in Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University and elsewhere the CRIMSON has asked several prominent army officers to express their opinions as to the ultimate value of the proposed plan, and to make suggestions as to the most practical methods of conducting such a course. In this connection the following letter from Major-General Samuel S. Sumner, U. S. A., retired...
...complied with. In the month of August, 1914, the nations of Europe exchanged a good many more notes than Mr. Wilson has exchanged with Germany before they took up arms. What Mr. Hughes would have done, however, is only a matter of conjecture, for he has not dared to express his opinion, either on this or on any other subject...
...president of the French Republic, was made by Dr. Morton Prince '75, of Boston. The ceremony took place in the Elysee when Dr. Prince, as special envoy of the 500 American signers, emphasized in his presentation speech the desire of the Americans doing active work in France to express collectively their sympathy for the French nation. The memorial, which bore the title "America to France" in gold letters, contained the autograph signatures of the American sitizens represented and a message of sympathy to the people of the Allied nations. The volume will shortly be placed in the National Museum...