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...Includes 118 commissioned officers of the Philippine Scouts and 7,115 enlisted men of the same service, 7,233 in all. The maximum authorized enlisted strength of the Army is 125,000 (exclusive of Philippine Scouts). Ergo, the Army was about 4,000 enlisted men below maximum. The current appropriations provide for an average enlisted strength of only...
...highest candidates for Vice Prsident. In the Senate the Republicans have 51 members, the Democrats 43, the Farmer-Laborites 2. Forty-nine votes are necessary to elect. Messrs. LaFollette and some of his insurgent colleagues, deserting from the Republican ranks, could easily deprive the Republicans of the necessary majority. Ergo, Mr. LaFollette would have the balance of power in choosing the next President. He might even have the opportunity of saying whether he wished Coolidge, Davis, Dawes or Charles W. Bryan for President. He probably would choose the last under such circumstances...
...attitude that our correspondent has. The latter speaks of the "new tendency" and our apparent fear or contempt of it. "We are" says Cyril, "afraid of nothing; and as for contempt, that is a snobbish feeling, and snobbery arises out of fear that someone will discover one's inferiority. Ergo, we admit no contempt...
...hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate? In which epoch was there the greater tendency toward exercise in the open? Personally I do not know, but I do know that...
There is apparent an universal tendency on the part of men who have entered their applications for Plattsburg and who have taken their final examinations in college work to regard themselves as for the nonce free lances, privileged to wander where they please. They have completed their academic work; ergo that lies behind them. They have not been admitted to Plattsburg; ergo that lies before them. In the meantime they are unleashed comets in the orderly procession of stars, confined to no monotonous orbit, but lawless in the seven heavens...