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...Program which is functioning in all its diabolic efficiency in Harvard Square. Such fulsome praise belongs only to an event of the first water; one which will be flashed to the far corners of the globe in precedence to all else of importance happening at Harvard. This afternoon a stalwart band of Crimson editors sally forth armed with bats, balls, pop bottles and one used catcher's mitt to meet a motley crew collected from the idle gang around the Lampoon Building in the year's most exciting baseball game...
...lighter-minded, the War Office has established in the main recruiting depot at Great Scotland Yard a line of male mannequins. These stalwart young men are exhibited in the full dress uniforms of a dozen famed regiments. A bashful recruit can shuffle about and decide for himself whether he would look better in the gaudy stockings of the Gordon Highlanders, the befrogged jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery, the white-plumed bearskin of the Royal Scots Greys, the brass helmets of the Royal Dragoons. Those who choose humbler regiments are handed new undress or "walking out'' uniforms that...
...example of exhibition building, the Gauguin show is even better than the van Gogh show. Forty-nine canvases from 25 different collections give the whole story of Gauguin's artistic development, from his pseudo-Monet landscapes of Brittany, done in the 1870's, through the brilliant stalwart nudes of Tahiti, for which the world remembers him, to the nostalgic view of France, painted in the Marquesas in the last years of his life when his eyesight was nearly gone and his feet were rotting away with chronic eczema...
...invasion of Mexico. Tired of his isolation, Blennerhassett readily helped finance the promotion. In May 1805 Burr first visited Blennerhassett Island. By the following year it had become headquarters for the proposed expedition. In December 1806 Burr was at the mouth of the Cumberland with 60 stalwart recruits, waiting for the flotilla of keelboats and supplies of men and munitions which were being assembled at Blennerhassett Island. But they never arrived. At this critical juncture a Federal agent, detailed to spy on Burr and Blennerhassett, sent back his report to Washington. President Jefferson issued a proclamation warning citizens...
Winthrop, potential champion and winner for the last three years, has the largest squad with over 22 men out. Coached by Robert S. Brookings '35, last year's stalwart on the Varsity, Winthrop is expected to nose out Kirkland, its nearest rival...