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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...declared that he went aboard the steamer that brought him here possessing of the English language only an almost useless smattering acquired in school. Before the voyage across was ended he had acquired, by diligent and vigorous study, the power to speak, understand and write it with facility. He never spoke it exactly as does one to whom English is mother tongue, but the difference of late years was just enough to betray foreign birth, and in his English writings there soon ceased to be even a trace of whatever in writing corresponds to "accent...
George Anderson King, Jr., '18, of Washington, D. C., was elected captain of the cross-country team for the season of 1917 at a meeting of the members of this year's team yesterday afternoon. King prepared at Friends' School, Washington, D. C., but never ran in competition until his Freshman year. He was a member of the 1918 track team, winning his numerals against Yale, and was also a member of his Freshman cross-country team...
There is in his violent excess a forcing of gesture and expression and in his voice a great deal of medieval exaggeration and burlesque. It is not fine art and to the intellectual it may grow the some, yet for the good of the world must never cease to make laugh...
...speaks well for the marvellous organization of the supply department. The supplies are brought from the sea coast bases to within ten miles of the front, and are taken from there, under cover of night, by regimental trucks to within 500 yards of the front line trenches. I have never known the supplies to fall to arrive each night, no matter how severe the battle was raging...
...Where never a man has been...