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...Rise of American Civilization, Beard has already jabbed at Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, the 19th-Century theorist of naval power. He here repeats the performance at greater length, with more savage relish. The navy man's Moses, it appears, was a thoroughly incompetent historian, his imperialist strategy "the rationalized war passion of a frustrated swivel-chair officer who had no stomach for the hard work of navigation and fighting." As for Roosevelt I, whose election was a "tragedy of politics," and Secretary of State John Hay, who "as Lincoln's secretary had become a treasure of the Republican...
...team composed of players from Weld and Grays halls defeated the Thayer basketball team, 23 to 22 yesterday, to win the championship of the Freshman interdormitory basketball league. The game was a play-off after equal records of four wins and one loss by both teams...
Weld Hall's basketball team, sparked by Bob Chase '43, upset the league leading Thayer combination yesterday, 22 to 16, to tie for first place in the Yardling interdormitory basketball race...
...Thayer scholarships to William E. Foley, Danbury, Conn, and to Ira Rosenbsum 3G, Brooklyn...
...Organizing Committee, appointed at a preliminary meeting of the Society called by Kendric N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government, consists of the following Freshmen: Joseph M. Harrington, Jr. of Thayer Hall, chairman; Harold M. Bailin of Mower Hall; Jean de Valpine, Maurice S. Friedman, and Stanley M. Garn of Weld Hall; David E. Place of Grays Hall; Thomas M. Ragland, Jr. of Thayer Hall; and Atwood C. Wolf, Jr. of Massachusetts Hall...