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...life a good official against his will, brought Grandson Trotta up to be a soldier. Grandson Trotta was not cut out for the army. He did his best, but when his part in a duelling scrape got him transferred from the Uhlans to a far-off infantry garrison he began to go downhill. Love affairs, finally drink, became his only interest in life. When he saw that his own disintegration was an echo of the Empire's break-up he resigned from the army. Then came War; he re-enlisted and was shot ingloriously in a border skirmish...
...Garrison '37 captured the Century from Edwin E. Calvin '35, sprinter on last year's Varsity. The time was 9 4-5 seconds, which is somewhat discounted by the handicap of the winner. In the longer distance races John E. Rogerson '34 gathered the laurels in the 300-yard run, while Gerald P. Rosen 1L won the 880-yard run by a hairline from Howard S. Derrickson '35, providing the one close stirring race of the afternoon...
...Yard Dash--Won by Garrison; second, Calvin; third, C. Thieriot '37. Time--9 4-5 seconds...
...evidenced in Japanese sentiment, in the statements of the leading militarists, in the concentration of troops to the north of Manchukuo, in the nastiness over the Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade between America and the Soviet...
This problem of lost causes finds a curious modern parallel in the refusal of Norman Thomas to support the fusion ticket in New York City. There is an interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high...