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...Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts of our relations with Mexico in a sober light. Rushing to enlist in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm will do no good until the government at Washington has made the final decision and the need for untrained as well as for trained men is expressed...
Another remarkable performance was Windnagle's winning of the mile in 4 minutes 15 seconds, only three-fifths of a second behind the mark set by John Paul Jones in 1913. Although not hard pressed, the Cornell runner finished with a great burst of speed...
...most thrilling sets of events ever held in a Pennsylvania Relay Carnival, the University athletes claimed a large share of the honors by defeating the speedy Pennsylvania relay team in the one-mile college relay championship, and placing in several other events. The University quartet exhibited a marvelous burst of speed and covered the mile in 3 minutes 19 seconds, within one second of the world's record established by Pennsylvania last year...
...audience of the ideas he has worked out alone or the facts he has collected. The latter listen without enthusiasm and dully set down in notes what they think they hear. In those cases where the lecturer, through his personality or power of popularizing, arouses unusual interest, a theatrical burst of applause betrays the peculiar attitude engendered by the platform lecture...
...enough offensive work by which to judge him. Even Willcox, however, who was called on to substitute for Enwright at the last of the game, was unable to keep his feet in the slim. King made several substantial gains, but he could not depend on the feeble line to burst holes in the "Aggies" defense...