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...entire battalion from the service. All of which would seem to lead to the conclusion that our negro soldiers are a disgrace to the service. Nothing is farther from the truth. The work of the colored troops in the last, Mexican affair was nothing short of marvelous; they bore the brunt of the fighting and acquitted themselves gloriously. The negro cavalry is equal to the best we have in the Army, and the War College cavalrymen stationed at Plattsburg during the summer of 1916 were a source of admiration to every student. A captain in this same 24th Infantry told...
...first half, straight line rushes, in which Horween bore the brunt of the playing, succeeded in carrying the ball over the Dean goal-line twice. The second touch-down was especially noteworthy, as it was gained by an 80 yard march down the field after a touchback on the kick-off. Both these touchdowns were scored by Horween...
Four hundred and one men enlisted in the Spanish war, the largest number of whom were in the First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders." The men were in the fiercest fighting, and bore the most desperate hardship in the Santiago campaign. Two prominent graduates of Harvard, Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, won their promotions in this campaign...
...author Professor Wendell ahs placed upon the shelves, casually and with too much modesty, two excellent novels, and a book on English composition which has carried his precise knowledge, the guidance of his flawless taste and his inspiriting influence far beyond the walls of Harvard. Whatever he wrote himself bore all the graces of a distinguished literary artist. He leaves Harvard the poorer by a genial personality an unfailing sympathy for the student (too often obscured behind an exterior of mocking shyness), and a fund of knowledge which the college will be long in replacing. Boston Tcaucribt...
...differences and inconsistencies in the arguments of various Republicans can be made an issue (without deliberate levity) by any one who supports President Wilson is hard to see. Mr. Hughes may indeed have widely different supporters, but "straight Americanism" will be enough for them all, although it may bore the Democrats as a "platitude". By insisting on the respecting of our rights by Germany, through a genuine threat of force, Mr. Hughes will satisfy the Roosevelt sentiment; in gaining a fair treatment from England of our mails and cargoes he will satisfy his German American supporters...