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...half-dozen representatives of the undergraduate body acted as guides and hosts to the group of sailors in their tour of Harvard. Their was no difficulty about language was every one of the fifteen spoke excellent English which bore little resemblance to the "I tank I bane go home; I vant to be alone" of their famous compatriot, Grets Garbo...
Sergeant Pullen, who rated the title of "tank commander," bore himself with appropriate dignity. Five years in the tanks had taught him all there was to know about them. "A good man, one of the best," his company commander called him (behind his back...
...Juan is the third son of a family famed for its Bourbon nose and its unhappiness. Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, niece of Britain's Edward VII, carried hemophilia to two of her four sons, bore two daughters who by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity are carriers themselves. Hemophile Don Alfonso, the eldest son, renounced his right to the crown when he married a wealthy but untitled Cuban, bled to death after an auto accident in Florida three years ago. Earlier, the youngest son, Don Gonzalo, also a bleeder, died after a minor car smash...
Thereupon Dr. Cowley started a public feud with Dr. Hutchins. Accusing Dr. Hutchins of excessive "intellectualism," Dr. Cowley expounded a rival philosophy and coined a name for it: "holoism" (i.e., education of "the whole man," not merely his mind). Last week Dr. Cowley's crusade against Hutchinsism bore spectacular fruit. He was offered the presidency of the University of Minnesota, second largest U. S. university (15,167 full-time students), by unanimous vote of its board of regents. To Hutchins, vocational-minded, unclassical Minnesota is an arch example of what a university should not be. Cowley, delighted with...
Nelson received a head wound at the Nile which he was convinced was mortal. But he survived for Trafalgar seven years later. There, just west of Gibraltar, 27 British ships bore down on 33 of the enemy in two columns, one led by Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Collingwood, the other by Nelson himself aboard his 100-gun flagship Victory. Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally...