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...files his favorites in a little black book, which he carries around with him). An ardent student of military history, he also likes to debunk such heroes as General Custer (TIME, Aug. 18), and to refight old battles (once, toting an armload of Civil War books, he visited Gettysburg and reconstructed the battle so vividly that his account is now the official one taught at the Army War College...
...last Saturday afternoon when, in accordance with an old habit, he had started to dedicate his first drink to some aspect to local football, and found himself completely stymied. This was unprecedented. Even in Charlottesville, a last minute inspiration had provided him with a toast to the battle of Gettysburg. But this time there was no such flashing light. So Vag had downed his drink in three gulps, quickly poured another, joined a burbling group in one corner of the room, and sworn off football games. In other words, said Vag to himself he was unusually frank in these conversations...
...battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
Since Labor Day the squad has been in training on the college campus which is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a hill 1,000 feet above sea level. Situated half-way between Baltimore, Maryland, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Western Maryland College overlooks the town of Westminster on the east and gives a 40-mile view west to the mountains. Men have come from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to get into condition for a season of stiff competition, Most of last year's team, which had the best record in the state, has returned...
When he was going to school, the President said, there was a discussion of the Battle of Gettysburg and a bright young man stated all the moves that should have been made by General Lee and by General Meade. The old professor said: "Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the greatest general's forethought...