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...next Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Bashford Dean will give two lectures on "Armor" under the auspices of the Fogg Art Museum. Dr. Dean has been Curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, since 1930, and has written many articles on the subject. The best known of these in "Notes on Arms and Armor" published by the Metropolitan Museum. During the war Dr. Dean was adviser on armor to the United States War Department...
This modern organization of Don Quixotes has discarded armor for pillowcases without losing a whit of real mediaeval spirit. They trudge today in the footsteps of the noble Dou--but all in secret and mystery. In its own words the Ku Klux Klan is "a secret and militant organization". Whenever possible its true name is kept silent in the presence of those unfortunate enough not to be members. In proselyting, both in the University and elsewhere, it is attractively garbed as "an organization of one hundred percent Americans", with the reservation that they be, "native born citizens of the United...
...Arms on armor clashing bray...
What is apt to cause comment, however, is the fact that on the same day the Senate succeeded in another attack against the new naval appropriation and opened a drive upon the supposed "armor ring". The Naval and the National Security Leagues were criticized, and the whole idea of building up the present strength of the navy was decried...
...completed another three-volume book in which he defies the foes of the fatherland and nerves his countrymen "to prepare in defeat for the victories of the future." He warns the world that though Germany may be forced to remain peaceful for a time, she will buckle on her armor again as soon as her manpower and strength return. With the nation's leaders preaching a new war, and the mass of the people grumbling and defiant towards the demands of the peace treaty, it does not appear as though Germany were ready to follow Austria's course of action...