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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitney, whose altitude is 14,502 feet, was seen first in 1864 by two assistants of Professor Whitney whose name the mountain bears as a permanent memorial to the man who labored so many years to map the topography and geology of this almost unknown country...
...United States the game is in a peculiar situation; its interest is pretty largely restricted to the eastern states--at least as far as collegiate participation. As yet the great middle western universities have shown small regard for the game--in some it is almost wholly unknown. The probabilities are, however, that the movement will spread just as football has spread. The benefits of the game as a means of keeping in form for summer tennis are open to discussion but the more essential requirement of partaking in some winter exercise which will not grow too monotonous, assures the future...
...Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great sword sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals to the executioners to proceed. An unknown prince, thrilled by her beauty, is determined to win her or die by the selfsame enigmas. The second act: Ping, Pang and Pong, comic ministers, jabber of the seven thousand centuries of China's glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire...
Though Ferdinand Foch was all but unknown in the U. S. prior to the World War, he enlisted as a private in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and later, after attending the War College, became a professor there (1894) renowned for the soundness of his matter and the brilliant originality of his presentation. He developed a veritable "school" of French officers who gave unusual attention to that evanescent factor which was to prove so vital when the War came: morale...
...thought. It was a genuine lament; many an Oxonian would feel injured, if only in principle, by fresh curtailment of his freedom to be with Oxoniennes. But many another Oxonian-for Oxford's flower, full-blown these many centuries, is here and there wilted to a decadence unknown in U. S. universities, as yet-would shrug and smile secretly to think that in their concern for the conduct of mixed company in Oxford, the authorities had continued to disregard well-known practices among athletes and poets, dons, esthetes and choir boys...