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Stampede (Pro Patria). The English explorers who made this picture in the Sudan jungle were trying, like some of their predecessors, to make a drama instead of a travelog. They have done a good job. Stampede is a love story. It contains a little manufactured anecdote about the struggle of two young men of the Habbania tribe for a black girl, but its real material is a different kind of love -the instinct, probably more impressive than any other human trait, that keeps the tribe marching toward life, fighting the jungle in the days when the river dries up, when...
...submitting the best essay on "Harvard Men in the Revolution", C. L. Lundin '29 was awarded the Patria Society $50 cash prize, it has been announced by Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 of the History Department. There were five manuscripts handed in for the Patria competition and of these, Lundin's essay was adjudged the best and that of W. H. Cleaver '29 given honorable mention...
...Crosby Jr. '24, hockey captain and third Senior marshal, left Boston on the midnight last night for New York, where he will meet Brooks Potter '24, hockey manager. Both men have earned their degrees and will sail today on the "Patria" for Naples...
Last day for receiving essays for the Patria Society Prize...
...prize of fifty dollars for an essay on any subject connected with the political or diplomatic history of the United States is offered by the Patria Society. The subject of the essay must be approved in writing by Professor A. B. Hart or Professor E. Channing. The essays presented in competition must contain from three thousand to ten thousand words, and must be handed in on or before June 1, 1914, to the Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 20 University Hall. A fair copy must be given to the College Library immediately after the award. This prize...