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...bend in the river favored J. A. Brown and Cambridge. Hugging the, bank, he called for 31 to the minute. Oxford hit up a game 32 and rowed it nicely if strenuously to stay in the race. Then the watchers on the shore saw something happen to Oxford. H. R. A. Edwards, the freshman No. 5, appeared to pull his chin down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute...
Nevertheless two shells were launched, and six class crews took turns in rowing upstream as far as the first bend. It is unlikely that the University crews will be able to row in shells today either...
...Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...
...carry out its full program without heeding the cries of the priests. Nothing worries me in all their maneuvers. Nothing interests me in these intrigues. I declare solemnly before the entire nation that the energy that the Government is developing and that it will continue to develop will not bend before any pressure, before any threat, and as long as I am President the constitution of 1917 will be effective...
...Formation of the Union to A Handbook of the War (with A. 0. Lovejoy) has edited (beside the 28 volumes mentioned) over a score of volumes of historical sourcebooks, histories, lives of statesmen and the Macmillan Co.'s exhaustive American Year Book (with W. M. Schuyler). He will now bend his energies upon South America, Australia and Theodore Roosevelt. In June, Harvard will bid him godspeed, call him "emeritus...