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...United States and was called to order sternly by Andrew Jackson. In 1860-61 it first seceded and then fired on Fort Sumpter and forced the rest of us into a hopeless civil war. In 1891 it threw out of the United States Senate Wade Hampton, the greatest soldier it ever has produced, and the man whose magnificent and daring leadership delivered it from the horrors and oppressions of reconstruction, replacing him with a very ordinary politician...
Super-Tuchun Wu of Chihli, Shantung, Honan, Kiangsu, Shansi, Shensi and Szechwan, greatest power and most brilliant military genius in China. He is the military power of the Peking Government and is allied with Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu against Chang and his cronies. His precise strength was not known, due to the fact that it was not certain that all the provinces under his sway would permit themselves to be swayed his way. In China, as elsewhere, every man is first and foremost for himself...
...action, all rests with the spirit to the shown by its members. If in that important category the Council of this year and succeeding years can duplicate last year's body, with its new superior organization it will soon he, what the Student Council should always have been, Harvard greatest, under graduate Institution...
Captain Stout, of football and hockey fame, Hills, recent Olympic track star, Gibson, Howard, and Beattle are letter men. Baldwin, Slagle, Rosengarten, England, and Ewing, last year's Freshmen, help to fill the line positions and leave Coach Roper with the backfield as his greatest problem...
Mahan's baseball record in the University was overshadowed by his meteoric gridiron career, but still he ranks as one of the greatest Crimson boxmen. He was the pitching mainstay of the 1914, 1915, and 1916 teams and also one of the leading batters. His greatest feat was a 1 to 0 shutout of the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game in the spring of 1916 when the Red Sox were World's Champions...