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...what they will, Princeton can never supplant Harvard in the affections of old Eli. Occupying as we do a sort of midway station between the two, our inclinations are not equally divided between the Tiger and the Crimson as would seem natural, but bear a slight twinge to the northward. Whether or not he will admit it, the average Yale undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference...
...neutrality in the East may fade away; and that, coupled with American recognition of the Soviet Union, should throw not a little cold water on Nipponese aggression. On the other hand, both these factors may be construed as a reason to strike now before their weight becomes prohibitive to northward expansion. CASTOR
...mouths of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers, sent a four-foot torrent flowing through the heart of Shanghai. The waters islanded the National City and Chase National Banks and most of the big downtown hotels. Having done several millions of dollars worth of damage, the 17th typhoon wandered northward after midnight...
...Revolution. On the night of June 16, 1775, twelve hundred armed citizens assembled on the Common, where they were led in prayer by President Langdon, of Harvard College, at the start of their march to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill. The original Common extended a mile northward towards Lexington...
Every morning last week a knot of sturdy Britons, surrounded by gawping Hindu hillmen, watched a snorting little Puss Moth skitter off the field at Purnea, near the Nepal border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...