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...that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power for readers in 1939 as the deep tenacity of Lincoln's efforts: first (vainly) to win the South to gradual, compensated emancipation; then to forestall class and sectional savagery, to maintain representative government in the torn border States (sometimes he seems to have done so by an act of will), to build, even as the war went on, a foundation for "a just...
Less time than usual has been provided for getting the team ready for its first meet, which will be against the M.I.T. Freshmen on December 15. Peterson expects to know the best or the worst by the end of the week when the whole squad will have been timed...
Professor Fay, speaking on the general subject of Germany and Russia in the War, first analyzed the historical background of present relations between Berlin and Moscow. He carefully pointed out that although the Weimar Republic and the Bolshevists were on friendly terms, the Hitler government is the natural enemy of Russia...
...Indoor Athletic Building gym the House hoopsters will have their first matches tomorrow. The games will run off on the following schedule: Dunster versus Leverett at 2 o'clock; Lowell, Winthrop, 2:45; Adams, Dudley, 3:30; and Eliot, Kirkland...
...hope of Finland checking the Russians is faint," Cawley said, "but they may put up a much better fight than is expected. Whatever the outcome may be, it will be very interesting because this present struggle is the first real test of Russian military strength...