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...second time, this Saturday, the Freshmen will be represented on the boards. With Lerner and Hollands out with leg injuries, this Saturday's team will consist of Light body, MacDonald, Mason Fernald, and Sherman Hoar. If Light body and MacDonald can repeat their respective 50 and 52-second quarters, and Fernald and Hoar perform up to expectations, the team will in all probability come home with the medal...
...September 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman finally succeeded in taking Atlanta. After surveying his well-equipped army in the Georgia city, he proposed a bold plan which he thought would be so destructive to military resources and civilian morale that the exhausted Confederates would throw up the sponge and end the Civil War. In November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they...
Last week General Sherman had South Carolina and Georgia howling again. This time the harsh old warrior was going forth as an engraved image on a harmless new 3? stamp with likenesses of his old accomplices, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon...
This week Elihu Root would be 92. From his home in Clinton, N. Y., his birthplace, after services in the chapel at Hamilton College where his father taught mathematics, where he was graduated the year Sherman marched to the sea, he was borne to his grave...
...Teachers College had twin sisters named Sonafelt who were so anxious to have identical records in everything that one, a much better high diver than the other, would wriggle into her sister's place at swimming meets and dive for both. Best twin legend is that of the Sherman boys of Brooklyn, Charlie & Joe, who are supposed to have won a cross-country race in 1920 when one twin ran the first half, the other the second...