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...hundred years the portals of West Point and the uniforms of officers and students have been emblazoned with the eagle of cowardice and the "bar sinister" of illegitimacy! True, the eagle need only turn his head, from right to left to signify valor, the sword of Mars had only to be changed to a "dexter" diagonal to gain Kipling's benefit of clergy, but the fact remains that nobody knew it until two years ago when a war department official realized the mistake. Nobody knew it, that is, who was in a position to have it changed or to mention...
...great piece of autobiographical writing. This was his conflict; this was his problem from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams of heroism in the Civil War and spun tales of visualized if not actual valor. Then Anderson became a manufacturer. He owned a factory. In a factory, the soul is destroyed, but before destruction sets in, the soul is puzzled. Mr. Anderson asked his soul a few questions and received clear answers. He put on his hat and coat one morning and left office, town, personality...
...flee. But in the middle of the scrap a tall, lanky young man with large, heavy fists began to use them with such good effect that the Republicans went down before him like ninepins. But the support he received from his comrades was scanty and soon discretion overcame valor and he too fled. Only some hours later was it known to the Republicans that the tall, lanky youth was Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern...
THOMAS THE LAMBKIN-Claude Farrere-Dutton ($2.00). Who wouldn't be a pirate? Granted Thomas Trublet's delectable natural aptitudes, no one could hesitate to embrace that active vocation. Thomas, Frenchman, mighty man of valor, ablest seaman of them all, butcherer of men, ravisher of women, man of his word (with reservations), sailed from the port of St. Malo to a career of blood and battle and of passion. He seized galleons, captured cities, slaughtered crews under the Jolly Roger. He was first ennobled, then hanged from his own yardarm by his Most Christian King. His undoing...
According to the rules for the award of the famous Rhodes stipends, each holder of a scholarship must be a man who has displayed literary and scholarstic ability, qualities of manhood, force of character, and leadership, and physical valor, as shown in interest in outdoor sports or in other ways...