Word: patting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been grounded on a groundless minor premise which somehow seems to have crept into many a superficial, unhistorical mind. Despite mischievous Machiavellian (Japanese) misrepresentations and overbubbling Senatorial sentimentalism, the plain, broad historical fact remains that Shantung, the cradle of Cathayan civilization, has stayed put as Chinese--and stood pat against alien intrusion, I will add--since time immemorial; and Chinese will it ever be without need of capturing, let alone d'Annunzio and his army. Academically put, the political sovereignty of Shantung is never in question. FREDERIC...
...games are taking on the aspect of an Olympic meet, with every allied nation presenting a notable array of stars. The American Expeditionary Force organization numbers among its athletes such well-known track men as Lieut. Harry Worthington of Dartmouth, three times national and intercollegiate broad jump champion; Pat Ryan, holder of five world's records in the hammer-throw; F. C. Thompson, all-round athletic champion of the A. A. U.; and Lieut. P. R. Withington '12, former University track captain and two-mile champion...
...interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations in red and yellow. (How pat for anonymity that choice of colors...
Lieutenant Pat O'Brien of the Royal Flying Corps will speak in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of the University Aeronautical Society. His talk, the subject of which has not been announced, will probably be on aviation, as well as on his remarkable experiences on the Western Front and in a German prison camp, from which he made his escape...
...Juniors applied for rooms this year. Although it cannot be concluded from this fact that the Freshman dormitories are a great improvement over the scattered plan of rooming of former classes, it is evident that a more universal feeling of unity exists among the members of 1918 than in pat classes or recent date. Usually the different dormitory committees have had to use every means at their command to get practically the entire class to room in the Yard. The encouraging number of this year's applications fifty more than can be filled at present, can be traced...