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Smarting under a defeat at the not particularly skillful hands of Colgate, the Syracuse eleven went west and knocked Nebraska down, 7-0. Vindication of Eastern football was the chief result of the game-since Nebraska had defeated Notre Dame, conqueror of Princeton, Georgia Tech, Army.
Mr. Saslawsky will be accompanied in his songs by his wife, a pianist of acknowledged distinction. She has long been a pupil of Mr. Harold Bauer, and her skillful accompaniment has contributed in no small degree to the marked success of Mr. Saslawsky's recitals.
1915]. On the one hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds...
Those who have sat under him in the lecture room, or have ever heard him speak, know, however, that such universality does not imply, with him, abstraction or scholarly aloofness. One of his chief charms is his ability to turn the ancients to present-day use, to make a Carlyle...
Four hundred miles of the most dangerous rapids in the United States-through the Grand and Marble Canyons of the Colorado-will be traversed between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 by a party of map makers and geologists sent out by the U. S. Geological Survey, under the direction of...