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...vetoing the Congressional resolution forbidding further recruiting, for the army until its standard strength is reduced to 175,000 men, President Wilson has but followed the course mapped out by himself in the halcyon days of the Versailles conference. He is apparently unable or unwilling to see that his plans for Armenian and Anatolian mandates have been rejected by the great majority of American voters. He still lives in the remembrance of his European travels, and would force upon the country the military requirements of his reconstruction promises so freely distributed at Paris...
There is much serious verse that is good, an editorial that smacks of Lampy's halcyon days and a free translation into Chinese English of the Jimmian equivalent of "two threes" as "one couple in the royal bath for three exalted minutes"--which is not altogether Comstockian. Mr. Choate's and Mr. Behn's drawings are, as ever, exceptionally good, and there is a mildly amusing article on the annoying miscellany of "drives," as well as a Biblical distortion that is funny in spots. On the whole the number is a pleasant one, calculated to "tickle the great American public...
...activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
...doubt these charges were exaggerated, but they rested on a slight basis of truth. In those halcyon days, tradition assures us, there was a mighty respect paid the wealthy student, however little he deserved it as an individual. The man who could afford to appear at a football game in a fur coat was counted among the lords of the earth, and if he owned a fast horse he was a very prince of fellows. The ordinary man could make his way then as well as now, but undoubtedly wealth was inclined to monopolize the centre of the stage...
...Harvard Yacht Club has entered the following boats in the racing cruise with the Yale Yacht Club, to be held under the auspices of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club, from New Lon far to Oyster Bay, starting July 1: Dahinta P. J. Roosevelt '13; Dorel, J. J. Minot '13; Halcyon, DeC. Fales '11; Opal, J. S. Morgan, Jr., '14; Opitash III, B. A. Edwards '14; Squid, R. W. Searle '14; Sultan...