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...there only four American battalions in the far-off frozen section of Northern Russia? Because the Administration is unwilling to send a larger force thither. Why are the columns of the Allies and Russians "thin"? Because the same Administration opposed the despatch of a larger Allied force. Why is the Administration opposed to effective intervention in Russia? Because American Bolshevists and pacifists have enough influence with the Administration to intimidate it into limiting its action in Russia to the feeble but fatal performance pictured this week in the despatches from Archangel. It is a repetition in Russia, as our neighbor...
...certain remote, dark, dank and inaccessible portion of Cambridge, commonly known as the Baseball Cage on Soldiers Field, certain heretofore staid, upright persons, the Class of 1916, will gather for a Junket. The Regimental Band, that aggregation of the world's most unusual musicians, will lead the way thither from the cliff-dwellings in the Yard, and will furnish sweet music while the erstwhile students disport themselves, seeking amusement in one of the many ways which will be provided for them. No less than two (2) Ethiopian Blackamoors will offer their carborundum co-cos to the onslaughts of Senior...
...with his full knowledge of her, that he conquers his own weakness and recovers his gift. They had planned to go away together to a beautiful mountain, but at the last he says to her "I tell you now of another place, higher yet, in more mysterious mountains. Travel thither for strength is there, and I will go with you, step by step, from faith to faith and from strength to strength, for I see depths of life open and heights of love come out, which I never dreamed of till now." Rhoda asks if he can mean that--that...
...lectures on April 3 will be Professor Richard Gotthiel of Columbia University. The subject is "Zionism," by which is meant the movement carried on by the rich Jews of Europe and America to get possession of a large part of Palestine, and to send thither the poor Russian Jews, who are suffering in their present surroundings...
Down to the middle of the second century of our era it was the popular belief that the real life of the dead was in the tomb. Offerings were conveyed thither by pouring blood through a hole in the top of the tomb. Thus also the the dead were supplied with food and drink, and even with clothing...