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...date, the team has won all three of the matches played, M. I. T. Williams, and Boston University having fallen before the onslaught of the Crimson linksmen. All were fairly easy matches, the first having been clinched 5 to 1, the second 6 to 3, and the third...
...Tribune): "Despite the unreconciled and heterogeneous qualities of this score, its lack of any prevailing integrity of style, the music has a power and an eloquence-sombre, granitic, yes 'monumental'-that sweep aside one's reservations and make one helpless before its tyrannous and cumulative onslaught...
Feng Yu-hsiang, the "War Lord" who possesses a huge mobile army and is now skulking in Honan province was reported "tirelessly engaged," last week, in preparing for his long heralded Spring onslaught upon Peking, a capital which he has several times captured. On the last oc- casion he was, of course, finally driven from Peking by Chang Tso-lin (TIME...
President Butler's subject for the evening was "The Lost Art of Thinking." He soon made mental mince-meat of people who cannot read Kant and Aristotle. Equally effective was his onslaught upon "the office-holding and office-seeking class" in the U. S.; that is, the politicians. What politicians were doing any morally courageous thinking? Which of them had labored to ensure against a repetition of the World War? Which of them had solved the farmer's problem? What politician had declared any reasoned convictions on Prohibition...
Nationalist Armies concentrated in the Nanking-Shanghai area and commanded by a military council of five members (TIME, Oct. 3). Onslaught. For variously attributed reasons, the most popular being Bolshevik machinations, Yen joined forces with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking...