Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday, the first day of practice since the Dartmouth encounter saw one of the most strenuous scrimmages of the year. At the close of the afternoons work two impressions stood out above the rest. One was the fact that the scrubs distinctly outplayed the Crimson combinations, and the second was the initial appearance of Dunker in action since his confinement in the Infirmary with an attack of diphtheria four and a half weeks...
...next day saw him in Ottawa, capital of the Dominion of Canada. At Government House, His Excellency General the Right Honorable Julian Hedworth George, Baron Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada, en- tertained the British Heir Apparent at dinner. The Baron spent the night at Government House, left the following day for Montreal...
Premier Herriot when he came into office last May saw in those provinces what his predecessors had seen, but, unlike them he did not approve. Here were two provinces being governed by German laws when they ought to be governed by French laws like the rest of France. The German laws permitted the Catholic religion to be taught in the public schools, which the French laws did not. And at the suggestion (by Herriot) of abolishing the German laws and substituting those of France, there was a hue and cry raised throughout Alsace and Lorraine...
...From 1871 to 1918, Les Soeurs de Ribeauville, a society of Catholic Sisters, remained behind the cloistered walls of their convent in Alsace. They were French and French they remained throughout the German occupation. They also saw to it that the girls they taught were inculcated with French culture. It was due to their 47 years of ceaseless devotion to their country that a group of little girls caused France to weep by singing the Marseillaise as the first French soldiers into Strasbourg...
...first time I saw Theodore Roosevelt was in October 1876," said the Rev. Bradley Gilman '80, a classmate of the late president, the anniversary of whose birthday comes today. The meeting was in the transept of Memorial Hall, where Roosevelt was speaking to two of his friends. The Rev. Mr. Gilman went on to describe his illustrious classmate...