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Senectissimus & Pershing Sirs: In your issue of July 1, p. 10, in reference to Senator Warren's term in the Senate, you state in the last paragraph that "his influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command the A. E. F."* On as important a matter as this, regardless of one's feelings for General Pershing, the records should be kept straight. If you will remember, General Pershing had proven himself to the War Department to be a commander who could follow orders to the very last letter...
...foregoing paragraph, translated into Esperanto reads as follows...
...Though he skipped the paragraph in the printed text of his speech, its omission was explained later as inadvertent, unintentional...
Submerged in the second paragraph of a small article on the front page of yesterday's News was the following item: "Harvard will play Princeton in a dual golf match on the Ray Tompkins Memorial Links tomorrow morning". The statement does not sound startling in itself, but it does show the utter futility of two great universities trying to keep at arms length from each other for an appreciable length of time. Harvard and Princeton have officially severed football relations for an indefinite period. Concerning the much-discussed break there is apparently much to be said on both sides...
...Leonardo Da Vinci, who was an inventor, engineer, poet, sculptor, musician and painter-and therefore qualified to speak-had an argument with a poet on the streets of Florence, as to the relative strength of painting and poetry. That night, Da Vinci wrote in his journal the following paragraph: ''The eye giveth to man a more perfect knowledge than doth the ear. That which is seen is more authentic than that which is heard. In verbal description there is but a series of separate images following one another; whereas in a picture, all images, all colors, appear simultaneously...