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...huddle is a perfectly proper and sportsmanlike means of introducing into the game the element of surprise, without which it would be stupid beyond words. The spectators for whom the game is made interesting ought certainly to be the last to complain if a few moments are required to set the stage for the thrill producers. Until a better means of achieving surprise is evolved, the huddle has come to stay...
...Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), Mr. Meredith was in his element. He awakened scientists to problems agrarian; he set his Department on hundreds of investigations; he made the farmers understand that the services of the Department were both free and efficient...
...German offensive at the Marne concentrated unexpectedly upon Le Petit Morin, the heights which General Foch had been assigned to defend with a pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount element in the French victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom...
...There are already signs of a split in the Dictator's government and the withdrawal of the element which cannot approve of what in plain fact is simple tyranny. Something is certain to happen. The interesting question is what and how soon...
...your letter, I wish to be absolutely frank. While the Student Council regrets the bad manners of the Lampoon editorial; and while the undergraduate body as a whole would never have expressed its feelings in this way, it is only fair to say that there has been a recognizable element of bad feeling in our football relations for some time...