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...When the desire for education became manifest native schools sprang up, but were still incapable of filling the need. In time American students conceived the idea of building colleges in the East in which the need of the people for education might be met and in which the English language might be taught and disseminated...
...length a stiff fence had to be taken. "Oh, Dear" sprang like an antelope, cleared the top bar by a hand, suddenly experienced complete heart exhaustion in the midst of the leap, crumpled down into a formless mass of horseflesh, dead...
...Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council" and "Provisional Council of State" which sprang up in response to the necessity for some sort of government during the War. The Slavonic Poles naturally continue "Catholic" (Russian Orthodox, Greek, Roman, Armenian, etc.). The present Republic has been described as "advanced, militaristic and enlightened...
...University tournament , which is drawing to a close, L.S. Haskins '26 sprang the second surprise of the competition when he came from behind to take a five game match from P.M. Lenhart '27 for a place in the finals. The winner is the last man on the University team while Lenhart ranks above him in fourth position. In the upper bracket R.S. Wright '26 and R.N. Rawlins '27 will clash some time next week for the right to meet Haskins for the University crown...
Know then, the Lampoon's birth is of a quality that far exceeds mere human bounds. Minerva like, it sprang fullarmed from the inspired heads of nine most Jovian wits, nine muses of the day. No CRIMSON midwife fostered it, and it has thrived on jests more recent than the daily news you render us in your dull, homely columns. Let this letter stand as a testimonial to your obloquy...