Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring fortress of Ham, which was wrecked last spring by the Germans, was the prison of Louis Napoleon from 1840 to 1846, and from it he escaped disguised as a laborer. In January...
...other graduates who preserved in later life the vigorous enthusiasm of youth are noticed at some length in the Book Reviews,--John Fiske and Edward Everett Hale. As figures in our national literature, they are fairly well known to the public at large; these reviews will perform a useful function in enticing readers to the bulky biographies recently issued. Yesterday seems so far away that one is grateful for these accounts of latter-day giants...
...Nathan Matthews discusses the legal aspects and the educational results of the Harvard-Technology decision, and on a later page the legal document itself is reproduced. The feeling that, after all, the University is in even more healthful a condition than could be expected is borne out by Professor Munro's report of the winter term, especially by his paragraph on "College standards in war-time...
...entire crew squad, comprising 14 University and Freshman shells, went on the Charles yesterday for the first time this season. Last year it was not until March 27, two days later, that all the oarsmen had their later, that all the oarsmen had their first chance to go on the water. Despite the decrease in attendance at the University since last year, only three fewer eights are now rowing than at the same stage of crew practice last spring...
...also been received that Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...