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Gilbert Frankau who, in writhing "Peter Lameson" sprang into the forefornt of British novelists of the war period, has rip his fortune again in "Seeds of enchantment" a move of Indo-China. The set to Frank Danby. Mr. rankau has had a unusual variety of experience, ranging from presidency of a large corporation in England to travel in most of strange corners of the world. He has been hailed by Rudyard killing as the coming British novelist...
...idea of holding such a Graduates' Day sprang originally out of the success of the "Old Grads" Summer School" held at the University at the outset of the Endowment Fund campaign. Last spring the New England Federatior tried the experiment of bringing back the graduates to study the work of the University, and more than 150 men attended. The meeting is now to be repeated, and it may possibly become an annual affair...
...that was then sweeping Texas. In addition to many old-time operators thousands of persons hastened to Texas who knew nothing at all of the business. Enormous areas of the State were placed under lease, thousands of wells were drilled in the Ranger, Burkburnett and Desdemona fields, and skyscrapers sprang-up in Dallas and Fort Worth to furnish office space for the oil companies and lease-scalpers...
...year and a half after the signing of the Armistice. Mr. Merrill was in charge of the Central Turkey College and the Near East Relief work at Aintab in the heart of Turkey. This country was a center of fighting between the French and the Turkish Nationalists who sprang up after the recent war. The city of Aintab was besieged for over a year by the French and only recently captured by them. Mr. Merrill escaped during the siege about six months ago, but while he remained in Aintab he acted as--a go-between for the French...
...much to rouse the public to this double function of the schools, and for a time it found its expression in the military units which sprang up all over the country, the summer training camps, and the general stress laid on physical development. Since the war, unfortunately, this feeling has largely died down with the result that the schools seem to be slipping back into the old paths of physical carelessness and haphazard methods of physical training...