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...four great things in life that are essential to happiness, one of the most vitally important is that a man have some leisure, and that he know how to use it," said Viscount Sir Edward Grey, British Ambassador to the United States, last evening before the largest audience that has crowded the Living Room of the Union this year. The speech, which was one of the three to he delivered in the United States by Lord Grey this year, was on the subject of "Recreation." After being introduced by President Lowell, Lord Grey first told of the great interest...
...Viscount Sir Edward Grey has long been engaged in governmental and diplomatic service. He was educated at Balliol College, and soon after graduation was appointed an under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he served until 1895. From 1905-16 he acted as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in this position had practically the entire charge of British Foreign Affairs during the trying days of the fall of 1914, immediately preceding and following England's entrance into the war. He resigned his office in 1916, and thereafter has been a Member of Parliament...
...ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter...
Previous to the speeches entertainment was furnished by Professor P. D. Rice of the Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word, and Mr. C. E. Kany 3G., concert pianist. Prof. Rice gave an interpretative and sympathetic rendering of Sir James Barry's one-act comedy "The New World...
...most popular course so far is the one in Elementary English Composition given by Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99, a total of 182 being enrolled in this class. A course in English literature on "The Life, Works, and Time of Sir Walter Scott," given by Professor Charles T. Copeland '82, has an enrollment of 158. Other courses given by members of the Faculty include one on French History and Civilization, given by Dean Charles H. Haskins, which has 64 members; Professor T. N. Carver has 76 men and women in his course on Programs of Social Reconstruction...