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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course of the fighting he ran the Russian and Japanese lines six times, interviewing Japanese and Russian prisoners as well as soldiers, riding with Kuropatkin's staff, and visiting Nogi's headquarters. His greatest feat, that of interviewing General Stoessel, was accomplished by runnings the Japanese blockade and entering Port Arthur under fire...
...attitude in later years. Never before were aged parents treated with so great kindness as today. Is this inconsistent with true democracy. The same relation between teacher and pupil has brought about far greater reverence than the old dictatory attitude. We, who are the most democratic, have the greatest reverence for women of all modern countries...
...University crew on the 17th. The outlook for both crews is very promising. The late fall rowing served to bring out much new material. In the first half of the annual contest for the University "Y" and freshman class numerals a. C. Gilbert M. S., won the greatest number of points. Of the freshmen entered, R. Barlow made the highest score...
...institution called intercollegiate football both in the light of adverse criticism and in the light of praise and have determined its characteristics, we must balance off those that are good against those evil. It is the object of the negative to show the wholesome and ennobling qualities of this greatest of American games. We believe and all who have had any experience in football, whether as spectators or competitors, cannot fail to agree--that there are distinct benefits in this institution of intercollegiate football in America. In defense of this view we offer three distinct contentions...
...that it has completely solved that problem which has harassed faculties since American colleges began. In the second place we contend that this intercollegiate game develops individual efficiency--that it teaches a man to undertake great things and carry them through to success. Our third contention is perhaps the greatest of all. It is that intercollegiate football fosters and develops in a man a spirit of loyalty for an ideal, his college, which is one of the greatest forces in the upbuilding of mainly character...