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...Although the Colonel was an honorary title, conferred by Congress, Colonel Knox was no armchair military man. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded at Gettysburg...
Died. Capt. John Garrity, 85, of New Haven, Conn., veteran of Gettysburg, last survivor of a G. A. R. post of 399 original members; in New Haven...
...seems that a certain Mr. Hubbard, '03 was "displeased", "shocked", and "grieved" because the 1928 Ivy Oration "irreverently" parodied the Gettysburg Address. It is very unfortunate that Mr. Hubbard's mental derangement should have caused him so much anguish as to make him sizzle in repressed indignation for five months, to finally explode in your estimable columns...
...point that displeased and shocked many of us in the Stadium was that any Harvard man should undertake to make a parody of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, one of the most sacred treasures of American literature. We all know that it was delivered upon a most solemn occasion and was written to dedicate a National Cemetery for those who gave all on that great battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present...
...hands of a strong Prince ton eleven, the Engineers have had a reasonably good record. The first two encounters went to Lehigh by 14 to 7 scores, with both St. John's College and the Pennsylvania Military College on the short end of the count. A fairly powerful Gettysburg combination next eked out a 7 to 0 win. Then came the Orange and Black debacle, but last Saturday there were marked signs of a Lehigh resorgimento when the team from Bethlehem triumphed over Muhienberg...