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...their annual series. Both nines have, during the past week, turned in excellent exhibitions of ball playing; Yale, through high-class pitching, spectacular fielding and wide-awake work on the bases, shut out Princeton Saturday, 1-0. Twice last week the University blanked strong opponents, Felton and Goode twirling gilt-edged ball, and the team as a whole appearing to carry a powerful punch. Comparative scores denote little in collegiate baseball circles; and if they were employed in sizing up today's opponents, the result would be worse confusion. The playing ability and general morale of the team...
...these brokers really have the financial backing they-claim, and if their offerings are actually the gilt-edged propositions they represent them to be, why should they come all the way out to Cambridge to offer them to students? If you must gamble with the odds against you, play roulette. But don't make Harvard College a paradise for bucket-shop operations...
...even greater sum. The average American has not yet reached that point of patriotism where he will invest all his savings in government bonds, while the present state of the stock market, lowered to panic level by vast liquidation of British collateral, offers him a chance to buy some gilt-edged security at an unusual bargain. In reality he is defeating his own ends, as should the loan fail, taxation would of necessity be largely increased, and the war considerably prolonged...
...tactical instructors referred to herein are the commissioned officers of the U. S. Army, the Officers of the French Military Mission, the regimental staff, the battalion commanders and their adjutants, and others designated as tactical instructors (these are distinguished by gilt insignia of rank...
...cords: (a) For tactical instructors and cadet officers--Blue cord, with gilt acorn at each end and gilt keeper; (b) For Cadets--Blue (infantry) cord. (C. U. R., No. 2, June 5, 1917.) C. CORDIER, Captain U. S. Army, Commandant. June...