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...SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH...
...Francis Harden Burr '35, of Needham, was appointed Assistant Football Manager. The new Associate and Intramural managers are William Mitchell Van Winkle '35, of Rye, New York, and Charles King Howard '35, of Larchmont, New York, respectively...
...SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH...
...shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien, on harvest-leave, admires her too. But when a man admires a woman, he no longer wants her. This is but one of the tragedies that mutilate the lives of peasant women when their men are at war. Madeline...
...gray face of a spent civilization. . . . When the old Roman Empire passed away, the gleam remained, evoking a face of its own, the Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...