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...warlike Afghans. During the last century Great Britain repeatedly occupied the Afghan capital of Kabul and the town of Kahandar (see Map) but her troops were always withdrawn and invariably with heavy losses. True the Afghan casualties were likewise heavy, but Britons have not forgotten that during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42) a British force numbering 4,500 was obliged to "retreat" until only one survivor, Dr. Brydon, reached the Indian frontier as "a half dead man on a half dead horse." Not less notorious than the fierceness and atrocious cruelty of Afghans in battle, is their characteristic...
Following the Alexandria riots of 1921, when nearly a score of foreigners were killed, and sixty odd injured, England managed to patch up the affair in the 1922 Anglo-Egyptian pact, which terminated the British protectorate undertaken in 1914. From that time until the present, Egypt has been working for absolute independence. A sovereign state, Egypt wished the British restrictions removed, but Britain firmly insisted on her right to guard her communications of Empire and to protect foreigners...
...Anglo-Saxon poetry and Mediaeval English literature, largely that of Chaucer, formed the material for the topics in the first division...
...message was countersigned by President-emeritus T. A. D. Jones. Lampwick is the Blue's stellar performer with the Anglo-Saxon idiom. "We're just an eensty bit glad," confessed "Speed" Copeland, Crimson draught-kicking mentor...
...history, entitled "The West in American Politics since 1865" and "New Points of View in American History" will be presented by S.J. Buck, visiting professor from the University of Minnesota. Professor M.Y. Hughes of the University of California is giving courses on "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century" and "Anglo-Saxon." Professor W.R. Mackenzie of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, will lecture on "Shakespeare" and "English Drama from Sheridan to Shaw...