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...miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never let the flame grow dim That he has lit, a beacon on our way. MARGARETE MUENSTERBERG. The Nation...
...necessarily varies from year to year, according to the quality of the leading scholars of each class, but a man who makes the first scholarship group once, on the second list twice, is usually eligible for membership. Intellectual achievements in outside activities are always given due consideration, but can never be regarded as making up for a student's deficiencies in his scholastic ranking at the Office...
Unless more candidates come out for Freshmen soccer the team will be forced to cancel its games. To date, there have never been more than twelve men on the field, and yesterday the number fell to seven. Sufficient practice cannot be obtained without two full teams. Last year 25 men, and the year before that, 44, appeared for the first work...
...runs carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping and ducking on hearing the whistle...
...select lot of land, scarred by trenches and craters, but still prolific in the hands of the intensive farmer, is French soil again. The buildings, it is true, have been shot to pieces and the trees, if there be any left, are blasted by shell and gas and may never leaf again, but one may till and sleep there in security unless the Germans "come back...