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...shabby, flabby mess of promises and deals by which the former were cheated out of an England even half "fit for heroes." That out of the way, Graves and young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles...
...revenge and material gain, [tried to] substitute freedom for force in the government of the world." He ended: "It is good for America that this house in which Woodrow Wilson was born will be preserved for us and for many future generations. In this valley of Virginia it will remind America that his ideals of freedom were wide enough to support democracy in all the world. He taught that democracy could not survive in isolation. We applaud his judgment and his faith...
...interpretation doesn't do much more in a day's work than smile through a cordial bull-session and gape at the Eliot House Tower. A more virile portrayal would have been preferable. There should have been a shot of the football squad or the crew licking Yale, to remind our public that we can do it. Or, failing this, the magazine could have casually slipped in a few views of a brawny Harvard stag line. Nor will the statement that the local boys don't speak until introduced encourage prospective Harvard fans at female institutions; a correction should feature...
...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...
Anticipating a spring rise in spirits and excess of energy among the inhabitants of the Yard, the Freshman proctors called informal meetings of their charges last night in an effort to remind them of the parietal rules...