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...armed resistance from the Armenians who were able to obtain weapons of any kind. Bombs were thrown into Van by the Turks, but the Armenian women patrolled the city and rushed up to the bombs before the fuses had burned to the powder, and after extinguishing the flame, used the powder for the shells, which were used against the Turks. After 28 days of continual fighting, the Turks decided that it would be impossible to overcome the Armenian resistance quickly, and on hearing that the Russians were coming to their assistance, retreated hastily...
...gloomy, chill dawn if the track squad reporting for the first practice today is not larger than any in the last four years. Two men reporting for the hammer-throw, three for the high jump, and one for the pole-vault will only snuff out the hopeful flame recently kindled. The best of systems must have men behind it. Today is the time for undergraduates to show the committees who have been working for the most efficient plan of direction that the College appreciates their efforts and desires a winning team this May. Every physically...
...vision and foresight. Under his leadership Harvard has maintained her position among the first universities of the world, and has blazed the path to higher fields of scholarship. The war has dimmed the light of science and letters in Europe, but President Lowell has helped to keep the flame burning brightly in America. May he enjoy many birthdays as President of this University...
...amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never let the flame grow dim That he has lit, a beacon on our way. MARGARETE MUENSTERBERG. The Nation...
...conventionally sane and sound, except that a good many readers will question whether "Mr. Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest...