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...entry of McGill University in the annual relay games of the University of Pennsylvania which take place today, marks the formation of another link in the chain which is gradually drawing the United States and Canada into even closer athletic relations. As we pointed out in the hockey season, McGill and Harvard have been the foremost in uniting the two countries in this way. But we look forward to the time, not far distant, when Canadian teams other than McGill will appear" on the hockey, track, and soccer schedules of American universities other than Harvard...
...Langstaff's study of Samuel Newell, 1807, the first American missionary to the Far East, and Mr. Chu's study of the Chinese Revolution, though dealing with topics one hundred years apart, inevitably bring on a fascinating chain of ideas. The reader will lay down the articles with regret that they are so brief...
...book" deals with the adventures of newly married Felix, who is singularly bashful and much afraid of bandits. Through a characteristically comic opera-esque chain of circumstances, he is forced to impersonate his soldier brother who is leading an expedition against the robbers. Needless to say all tangles are straightened out in the fifty seconds before the final curtain...
...Grenfell first became interested in medical missions among the fishermen of Labrador in 1892. The suffering of the natives and the intense poverty throughout the fishing settlements led to the gradual establishment of a chain of hospitals, nursing stations, orphanages and co-operative stores along the coast. Communication between the scattered settlements was established by the visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice...
...unimportant matters, however, to which it is hard to point directly, cases of petty exclusiveness arise which give the University the name of being far less democratic than it really is. Just as the strength of a chain is measured by its weakest link, so Harvard democracy is measured by its greatest snob. If the offenders would only take the trouble to look about, they would have little difficulty in finding many people and things connected with the College community as a whole which they might well be proud, instead of too proud, to associate with. The more thoroughly...