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...only because of his actual results which abound in daily life, but also because of his remarkable character which has never admitted defeat and which is based on the fundamental qualities of all that is best in human nature. The younger generation offers its congratulations to one of its staunchest defenders...
...Saturday night Mr. Villamin spoke at Portland on the same platform with M. P. Lichanco '20, a former student at the Law School, who is one of the staunchest advocates of Philippine freedom and co-author of an authoritative work on the subject. Last night the two speakers were at Ford Hall. Mr. Villamin attended the Williamstown conference last summer, and has spoken frequently at the 'Foreign Policies' Association in New York. Because he is practically the only educated Philippine who does not advocate independence, his views have attracted much attention...
...June 16 entitled: The Naval R. O. T. G. Whatever rude shocks, the CRIMSON may have inflicted upon stony conservatism in the past by espousing worthy but novel causes, it may now be freed of all suspicion of liberalism by its present docile lisping of the syllables of staunchest reaction...
...opening evening the audience was obviously bewildered. It seemed to expect that at any moment the play would suddenly become Seventeen with an English accent. Such development did not take place, but the audience laughed at the wrong time just the same. Scarcely in the memory of the staunchest theatregoer has there been such a flagrant example of ill manners and incomprehensible stupidity on the part of men and women who marry and go through the other forms of presumably intelligent adulthood...
...Hindenburg has become a forgotten myth, since he has entered the political field. The staunchest of Germany's militarists, the victor of Tannenberg and a hundred lesser battles, remains no longer silent and aloof among the great field-marshalls of Germany. Today he is be-leaguered by the political pack which helps and snarls at his heels...