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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Ferguson, a rugged old Iris farmer with pure faith in the Biblical doctrine of "turn the other cheek, awaits the destiny which God has is store for him. Neither the impending loss of the house in which he has live all his life, nor the assault on his daughter, Hannah, by the brute Henry With row, who is going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken...
...only when his own son, Andrewtells him that it was he, not Jimmy Caesar, who shot Withrow, that the old man breaks down and thinks of nothing but Andrew's escape. But the courage of the younger generation in Andrew tells Hannah comes to fortify the old, and the ideals which are temporarily shattered in the mother's cry of "I don't wan God's will, I want my son!" are regained John Ferguson "carries on"; his fortitude remains supreme...
Manager G. D. Saunders of the Yale hockey team has given out the following statement: "The hockey team is under a great handicap because of the inactivity of the old New Haven Arena, and at present we have no rink. On account of our predicament we are arranging no extensive schedule and our season will close by February 15. It seems altogether likely that the team will make a trip through Canada during the Christmas vacation...
...from the undergraduate body as would any athletic team at one of their contests. Of course, we cannot legislate people into goodness, nor can we make the undergraduate body go to hear good music rendered by their fellow-students if they won't; but it seems as if the old adage might be considered that, "although you can lead a horse to water, you cannot make him drink." It is worthy of notice that this remark is made of a quadruped, but not a biped; in fact, if a biped is led to a beautiful stream of water, we might...
...course, with typical Teutonic subtlety, this force is camouflaged in various ways: Home Guards, Police, and the 400,000 standing army allowed by the Allies to combat Bolshevism. The fact remains, however, that Germany has these men, all armed with the latest war appliances. In them the old Hohenzollern military spirit is rejuvenated...