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...considered a waste of space to give attention to such on innocuous, bit of rhetoric as this. It is however not only because of its general vacuity but because of the calm way in which it ignores the events of the day that we call attention to it. Liberals pride themselves on being progressive--up with the times. And yet these...
Germany knows what a war-ruined city is. Oppau lies in the dust of devastation--a ruin as complete as if the Kaiser's advancing army had gone over it with shot and shell and murderous shooting parties. A little bit of Flanders and Belgium has rolled backward across the Rhine. The explosion of the "new gas" which Germans are said to have been preparing was quite as sudden as was the descent of the German devestation upon Dinant and Louvain in 1914. Oppau is hoist with Germany's own petard...
...speech in the Diet, may expect to receive not less than half a dozen challenges from the leaders of the opposition. As the challenger always pays the expenses, the person challenged usually arranges his acceptances in order of the social standing of his adversary, it being considered a bit ulcer to be killed by a former Viscount than by a mere Captain of Hussars. Rival store-keepers now settle their differences with sword and pistol rather than by cutthroat competition. Most important of all, a student who has been "flunked" by his instructor invariably calls...
...Call of the Sixties" is an unusual bit for vaudeville. Its success lies in "putting over" the appeal of the old-time songs. But Claudins and Scarlet had no trouble in doing it, or in getting the audience to join in the choruses...
...three events which took place yesterday, the three-quarter mile race for school eights furnished the greatest excitement. Browne and Nichols, and Noble and Greenough had previously reached the finals by defeating Cambridge Latin on Wednesday. In thein race yesterday a very slight bit of open water separated the two shells as Browne and Nichols pulled across the finish line first in 4 minutes and 2 seconds, thereby winning the Yale Challendge...