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...meeting of the University Engineering School chapter of the Tau Beta Pi honorary fraternity held directly after the initiation of the chapter Wednesday night, Earl Pierce Nelson 3E.S., of Waterloo, la., was elected president, and George Gerard Tunnell Jr. 1G., of Chicago, III., vice-president for next year. The other officers were selected as follows: Recording secretary, Eliot Furness Porter 3E.S., of Hubbard Woods, III.; corresponding secretary. Morris Stone 4E.S., of East Weymouth; and treasurer, Matthew Scott Brownell 4E.S., of Washington...
...dusty corner of the Louvre a Paris antiquarian discovered Napoleon's bay mare?that he rode at Waterloo...
...much change in them. Whether they call themselves Germans, Astrogoths or Visigoths; whether they enroll themselves beside the Huns in the armies of Attila or put themselves under the leadership of the Prussians; whether they trick us at Leipzig; whether they are defeated at Ligny or the conquerors at Waterloo; whether they surround us at Sedan or are crushed along the Marne; whether they falsify the Ems telegram in 1870 or violate Belgian neutrality in 1914, they are a people for whom war is for all time their national industry and for whom peace is only an armistice between wars...
History, we are told, has a habit of repeating itself. The conquered Prussians, by means of an apparently harmless system of military training, were able to put on the field at Waterloo a force of men that turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...
...most striking exhibit is, perhaps, Pistrueel's Large Waterloo Medal. This is the gift of Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer through Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, M. P. It is over five inches in diameter and covered with the most exquisite detail. This is of such minute detail that only gutta-percha impressions have been taken from the original mold...