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...Cologne Cathedral is not remarkable for its beauty. It was indeed planned originally along the lines of the lovely cathedral of Amiens, and in spirit it is French rather than German, but its proportions were a failure, and the recent removal of surrounding high buildings, in an intention to give to it its full value, have only had the effect to win for it the epithet of "the overgrown monster." For all that, its history, its size and some of its architectural features no doubt entitle it to the respect which the British and French aviators have hitherto paid...
Last spring the Red Book borrowed $700 of the Class Fund and of this amount $460 has already been repaid, leaving the Sophomores a balance to draw from in case it is decided to invest more of the funds in the third Liberty Loan, although the cost of the recent smoker will necessarily lessen the balance to a certain extent...
...Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
With no further reference, then, to the "Harvard Illustrated," and referring to the present case merely as a recent instance of a regrettable thing that occurs from time to time in American colleges, and not more at Harvard than elsewhere, I am led to one or two reflections, concerning the realization in college life of a thoroughly sensitive and discriminating loyalty. The least relaxation of this spirit on the part of any member of a college group may lead even inadvertently, to such serious misapprehensions...
...recent commandeering of one million tons of Dutch shipping, we have been added materially in our transportation problem. In these days of a shortage of ships and a superfluity of U-boats, we cannot get too much tonnage...