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...graduation, though at the former, men have been known to finish the course at a very early age. In Princeton the ages of the youngest men of the graduating classes vary between 20 and 19 years, though one member of the Class of 1916 was only 18 years old when he received his degree...
...large number that are under the eligible age the best plan for them is to remain in the Harvard unit. When they are old enough to take a commission, they will have had three or more months of valuable training. This will enable them to become officers with a short additional term of instruction, or they will gain the maximum rank by attending the next series of Federal camps. Anyway, the succeeding weeks should not be wasted by these younger men. The country will need them later, and all the drill and instruction they can obtain in the meantime will...
Tuesday evening the sixth Craig Prize Play was given its premier production, and for the first time in the history of the prize plays the performance was not in the hands of the old Craig Stock Company. Mr. Craig has ventured into broader fields of producing, and Mr. Andrews' play has, therefore, the benefit of a specially selected cast. To judge from the symptoms of real success and ability clearly apparent in the play we shall hear much more from and of Mr. Andrews within the next few years in the world of the theatre. "America Passes...
...whole being revolts against the monotony of dreary, uneventful missionary existence in Japan. She has passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees in him a tool of the cruel, laughing Tiger. Hale...
Hoskier was 21 years old, and a native of South Orange, N. J. He prepared at St. George's School. During his Freshman year he played on his dormitory hockey seven, and was also a member of the golf and of the fencing teams...