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Another name has been added to the long list of Harvard football captains. And this one is singular in that it is the first name that can be written into annals of football since 1916. Football has been the last of the sports to be resumed after the war, but it has come with a rush. The University once more has a team which will take the field as in days of yore. Preparations for the big game are well under way, and the whole College is enthusiastically looking forward to a season which will avenge the defeat...
...singular good remedy for a stutting and a stammering in the speech...
...successors and the men who have worked under them. A schedule of training is to be followed which can do nothing but assure to every man a completely satisfactory training. The departure of these regular army officers must bring home to every mind the fact that there is a singular shortage of such men in the United States. And with this the corollary that an enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly believe she is. Where are our officers coming from? Secretary Baker who surely...
...hundred and thirty or so men from the University be so selected, condemnation of the favoritism shown will rise to damnation. And it is a further reasonable supposition that should those officers, having undertaken with their men the defense of a portion of the battle line, by some singular feat of courage or skill force the retirement of the foe which opposes them, the Germans will then be accused of having conspired with the Government, the War Department and fate to advance the honor of these hundred and thirty men, over more deserving men who have failed of everything...
Delicate and dainty pantomimie will be a decided novelty for a great many of us, for what dumb shows we have seen are of the slap-stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge...