Word: first
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...First Marshal...
...there should be a joint meet this year it would break the tie that now exists between the Cambridge-Oxford and Harvard-Yale teams. The first engagement took place in 1899 on British soil, where the English triumphed five points to four, each place counting a point. On a return meet in 1901 in New York the Americans were more fortunate, winning by a 6 to 3 score, and this performance was again repeated in England three years later. In 1911 the Englishmen came to the fore again with a 5 to 4 victory, thus tying the series...
...expected to turn out an excellent team to compete in the meets that have been arranged with Yale and other colleges. The Eli meet will take place in the latter part of March and will be the culmination of the season. Men who report for the first time now will be at no disadvantage, as formal practice is just beginning...
...then again, for those who were in the front zone, it is an open secret that "average" is the last term to apply to our First Division, in which Roosevelt fought. There were other good divisions, the 2nd and 3rd and 32nd and 42nd, and others, too; there were also a few pretty poor ones, whose achievements under demobilized conditions are a good deal more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...