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...indicates that the class of 1920 is on a firm financial basis, in spite of the fact that there has been no campaign for funds since the Freshman year. At the time of the first Liberty Loan the class invested $1,000 from its treasury, in bonds, from which it has already obtained $17.50 in interest...
Before the war Major Homans was a member of the law firm of Hill, Barlow, and Homans of Boston. He has served in the state legislature, and was for three years secretary of the Massachusetts Bar Association...
Coach Duffy considers that the battery candidates have been coming along in good shape. He feels that so much progress has been made by these men that a firm foundation has been laid for a correspondingly rapid and thorough development of the other positions both infield and outfield...
Clemenceau as been to France what Roosevelt was to America. He has been a physician of prominence, a war-correspondent, a soldier, a teacher in a girl's seminary at Stamford, Connecticut, a duellist, a critic, a playwright and above all a journalist. Like Roosevelt a firm believer in the big stick, he has clubbed his way to the top by the sheer force of his convictions. He roused the enmity of the socialists by the vigor with which he used the military to quell the mining strikes in the Pas de Calais department in 1906. He fired the wrath...
...through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair. The firm moral consistency of Puritanism was always his, yet his playful remarks about belonging in a hospital for incurable children had a measure of truth in it also...