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...tickets had been sold last night, with every indication that the game will be a complete sellout. Still smarting under the sting of last year's humiliating 27 to 0 defeat. Harvard is forgetting Yale for the moment and concentrating on the Crusaders with all the power it can command. Reports from Worcester have it that Phil O'Conncil and his hard-driving eleven are equally determined to duplicate last year's flasco...
...first two days were devoted to sabre practice and the various evolutions of the troopers. As not even a dozen of the company knew how to ride with case or saddle a horse properly, many amusing scenes resulted. When the command "Boots and saddles" was given for the first time, it was difficult to tell whether the boys or the horses were the more scared...
...conflicting. How distasteful this activity has seemed to the president himself is now clearly indicated by the fact that it has moved him to depart from his long-standing custom of silence regarding such matters, and to authorize the issue of an official denial. His attitude, we trust, will command the respect to which it is entitled...
Sheridan saw some active service against Indians in the West, but the Civil War was 15 months old before he did any fighting in it. A capable executive, he was found useful in a quartermaster's job. But when at last he got a command with the Army of the Cumberland he came steadily, quickly to the fore. At Perryville, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge he won his spurs, came under the notice of Grant. When Grant was put in command of the Army of the Potomac he sent for Sheridan. President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton looked hard...
...Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like any military commander he has complete command. No singer may be delinquent about rehearsals. Because of tardiness last year one man was forbidden to sing in any of the Manhattan concerts...