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...better known through his position as chairman of the Committee on Electives. The office was one which required a comprehensive knowledge of the details of the educational system, and more important, an inexhaustible amount of tact and diplomatic skill. All these requirements Professor Parker fulfilled in a commendable manner. Never demonstrative or effusive, he met all who came to him for advice simply and courteously. He was always just in his decisions; patient and forebearing in his judgements. Whoever came to him for advice found a man who took a personal interest in the particular individual's ideals and ambitions...
...where men had gone out and led straight lives, and read extracts from several letters, of which the most significant one was the following: "You ask me how I have been doing. I should be an awful fur if I should make a promise and then break it. You never want to be untrue to your friends, and those men back there in the league are the best friends I ever...
...offence which runs under its own power, battering down all opposition, and seemingly impregnable to attack. American made, it has never before been seen by civilian eyes in any country. It will demonstrate in the most graphic manner how its counterparts have operated against the Germans on the western front...
Five members of the 46th Queen's Battery went out in one day. Two of them had never been connected with the university, but they identified themselves with a Queen's unit, they trained and fought with Queen's men, and suffered with them, and they died with the same noble courage. We never knew them as fellow-students, but we own them brothers and their names shall stand forever in the list of our honored dead-noble names in a noble company...
...listed compulsory Greek at Cambridge--and it is a casualty that causes grief in England. The University Senate has been empowered to remit the study in the case of men who have served six months, and it is mournfully agreed that the accidental breach in the wall can never be made quite strong again. Oxford, too, has shown signs of weakening, in spite of the presence of Murray as Regius Professor, in spite of the quatrain of a generation...