Word: lincoln
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Players not selected for the Brunswick trip will see action at Dillon. In a previous clash with Bowdoin this summer, Ashley's netmen won 8 to 1. The Varsity also defeated the Lincoln town team and lost to the United Shoe Country Club team for a season's record of two wins and one loss...
...time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bernard M. Baruch...
...Socialist." Altgeld's bravest, best-known act as governor of Illinois was his pardon, in 1893, of three labor leaders jailed for complicity in Chicago's Haymarket bombing seven years earlier.* For this he was damned far & wide as a "Socialist," a "wild-haired demagogue." Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's only surviving son, rose at a Harvard alumni banquet to beg all good Harvard men to "stand firm in the midst of such dangers in the republic." The press screamed that the Governor was encouraging "anarchy, rapine and the overthrow of civilization...
...harem and sacrifice-by-fire are included among the customs that Siamese royalty and English propriety hold in continual disagreement. But through a mutual appreciation of topics from Moses through President Lincoln, the King is drawn toward recognition of this difficult European who is a woman but manages to forget...
Plans are being made for a possible match with the Law School raqueteers tomorrow afternoon at Dillon Field courts, and the Varsity squad may face the Lincoln Tennis Club on Saturday...