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...these 93 events, the University will be represented in but nine,--three relay and six field contests. Only two of these events, the medley relay and the hammer throw are scheduled for this afternoon. The Crimson vanguard of eight men left for Philadelphia yesterday afternoon with the eight men who are likely to be called on for these events,--Berglund in the hammer throw and for the relay race, Captain Merrill, Robb, Kane, and Watters, with Allen, Tibbetts and Broome as possible alternates...
...vanguard of rumors clattered up the road of journalism. The Kafandaris Government had fallen. The Glücksburg dynasty had been ousted. The Republican extremists were in command...
...very vanguard of the 20th Century in most respects, Germany has straggled back into the 17th Century politically. The curse of mediaeval government has hung over her noblest achievements. At a great crisis of their history the German people are deprived of that power over their own political institutions without which the English speaking peoples have justly come to regard life itself as intolerable...
...plot of the play is: "The beautiful young wife of an old, countrified Prince receives a copy of a rather gallant book of love with a letter from the Empress Catherine, announcing she intends to pay an unceremonious visit. A handsome young guardsman arrives as the Empress's vanguard and immediately begins to flirt with the girl Princess, whose imagination is stirred by the golden book. The husband intervenes, and a grotesque duel is cut short by the appearance of the Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much...
...great Spirit, we are thy most visible vanguard of villainy-a motley mess of gone-up goose bones...