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...more than made up for it in his comeback attempt, for "Alexander Nevsky" is as intensely nationalistic a film as any which local screens have shown in recent years. Basing his story on the struggles of the heroic Russian cavalry against the invading Teutonic knights of the 13th century, Eisenstein has created a picture which is more enthusiastic than sound, more spectacular than it is well-knit...
...summer cruises in square-riggers, distinguishing himself not at all. But in his last two years at the Academy he began to get the hang of things, soon was holding his own with older classmates, serving as coxswain for the Academy's first cutter crew. He graduated 13th in a class of 47. Out of that class ('97) came seven admirals besides Tommy Hart...
Richard K. Martin is the present Editor-in-Chief and O. Floyd Vinson is chairman of the photo board. The Yearbook will go to press sometime between December 7 and 13, and will be distributed between the 13th and the 16th...
...this last week of what had been one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. Novgorod means New Town, but Russia boasts few that are older. In the Ninth Century the New Town already exercised supremacy over the other towns of Russia's northwestern lake district. By the 13th Century, the place called itself "Sovereign Great Novgorod" and its Kremlin was already about as old as any structure in the U.S. is now. The Kremlin's newer stone walls were begun in 1302. Through the years the city accumulated hundreds of priceless relics, such as the great Twelfth...
...campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic archbishop] would have cried: 'This is Europe! . . . Our vision is looking back, not forward. This is the Paris of the 13th Century...