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Whether or not the battle which was in progress last week would be remembered in history above the great battles of Lord Nelson-the Nile (1798), which broke Napoleon's Oriental ambitions, and Trafalgar'(1805), which limited his ambitions in Europe-remained to be seen. Those affairs exposed...
To meet this challenge, Sir Andrew Cunningham brings all the traditions of the British Navy-and no institution in the world has so many. Among them is the command of great words: like Nelson, Sir Andrew uses simple, direct, clear phrases, but phrases shot through with the humble thing which...
Wagner and Wilson came in half a length behind Anderson. Next in order of finishing came Bailey, Lincoln, Hemans, Redmond, and Farley. Bailey's boat, which came in sixth, was the first 150-lb. crew to finish the race.
There followed one minute of devotional silence. Then Representative Guyer, onetime high-school principal, onetime judge, onetime mayor of Kansas City, Kans., presented the Republican tribute to the dead. He quoted Felicia Hemans, Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from...
President, Major H. L. Higginson '82; vice-presidents, J. Lowell '77, of Boston, and F. A. Delano '85, of Chicago; treasurer, J. W. Hallowell '01, of Boston; secretary, E. H. Wells '97, of Boston; directors, J. Lowell '77; R. M. Saltonstall '80, of Boston; G. D. Markham '81, of St...