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...drove through the gayly decorated streets in an open car. Triumphal arches were in evidence and picked troops lined the route from the depot to the Presidential Palace. Reports varied as to the degree of enthusiam displayed by the populace. One said that they cheered; another that not a cheer was heard, the only manifestation being a stolid, Oriental curiosity...
...weather yesterday drove Coach Fisher and his men into the cage until very late in the afternoon when a brief snappy signal drill was held on the outfield of the baseball diamond. Today teams A and B will only go through kicking practice and a short signal work-out in order to be all primed to face Holy Cross tomorrow before the largest crowd that ever packed the Stadium for an October game...
Ding dong, up and down, Sweetser and Marston played to a mutual standstill in 36 holes. They walked over to the first tee and halved their 37th hole in the figure 5. They drove to the 38th, Marston on, Sweetser off. Sweetser chipped, Marston putted, and his fifth stymie of the day made Sweetser runner-up, Marston champion...
Many a college student has perhaps wondered what under the sun drove the Mediaeval youth to walk across whole nations with his possessions on his back in order to hear lectures by the savants of that time. But if modern youths found themselves in the same case, that of having no books, newspapers or magazines, they would be quite as eager to learn of the world and other people and themselves, however far they had to travel. Not until one begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed...
...somewhat complicated. He enlisted in the Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went to Italy, drove an ambulance up and down Mt. Grappa during the height of the Austrian drive. He returned to America in July, 1918, was immediately enlisted in the Army ambulance, received training and was sent back to France, but never had any active service with our own forces...