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...Mediterranean, he continued, has always been the field of piracy, but the United States was not affected until by the Revolution it lost the protection of the British navy. Treaties and tribute proved vain, and in 1800 we commissioned our first frigate to fight the corsairs, and not long afterwards three more, in cluding the "Philadelphia." Enticed by a small boat of the enemy, the "Philadelphia" ran on a reef. Captain Bainbridge dismantled it, as harbor craft swarming with armed men compelled surrender...
...want to see them. We ought then to have this privilege at the lowest possible cost. In the face of a $20,000 surplus and the fact that the tendency has been to reduce this item of expense to members of the University one looks in vain for some justification for the Athletic Committee's action in imposing this additional tax. We all know there is a heavy debt on the Stadium, but the $20,000 surplus would seem to indicate that we are doing our fair share towards removing that debt. As it is only reasonable to suppose that...
...scenes of a theatre. Mile Beauval is discovered in a heated argument with the director of the theatre. Monsieur Dancourt. Complaining of the shortness of the play and of the inappropriateness of its title, she refuses to act her part of heroine. The director's remonstrances are in vain. Mile. des Brosses, attendant to Mile. Beauval, announces that the author refuses to allow the play to proceed with the present cast, whereupon Mile. Beauval is as insistent on taking the part of heroine as she had previously been in declining to do so. Monsieur du Bocage, manager for the company...
...University team showed up well, playing hard, straight football, with a life and snap that argues well for a successful season. The line defence proved very strong, so that the visitors, after vain attempts to rush their distance, were forced continually to resort to kicking. The secondary defence was also strong, doing such good work that Williams was able to gain first down but three times. In offensive play the University backs, lined up in the tandem formation, worked well together, and rarely failed to gain through the somewhat lighter opposing line...
...baker; the houses they live in they owe to the carpenter and mechanic; the clothes they wear to the shepherd and weaver and shop-keeper. Let them consider themselves the equal of the toiling classes when they do their work as faithfully, but let them never, in vain condescension, consider themselves above them. Fourth, let men be self-sacrificing. Let them give themselves for others and let them sacrifice the lower part of their own nature for what is highest in themselves...