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During the war patriotic orators hailed with enthusiasm the construction of a huge merchant marine, with which, after the war, the nation was to secure the commercial supremacy of the seas. But the American fleet has failed to capture the trade routes from England and other European nations; while foreign tramp steamers are picking up cargoes here and there, sufficient to pay operating expenses, an undue number of United States ships are tied up at the wharves, a dead loss to their owners...
Regarding the limitation of naval armaments, the delegates accepted the principle of the American proposal, which was to stop the competition in building navies. The essential element in that competition is the battle fleet. The only basis on which that competition can be stopped is to leave those battle fleets as they are. The United States therefore has proposed to scrap every battle ship and battle cruiser in the American, British, and Japanese navies, that was not actually in commission and useful for battle purposes. As estimated in displacement tonnage that leaves the ratio between the American, British, and Japanese...
...goal posts after marches of 70, 92, and 85 yards respectively. Finaly in the last period with the final whistle only seven minutes away, Coach Fisher's men staged their come-back. With a backfield consisting of two quarterbacks, Buell and Johnson, Coburn, a third string guard, and Churchill, fleet and elusive but comparatively light, and with a crippled but raging forward line, in three minutes they went from their own 12 yard mark down the field and over the last line for a thrilling touchdown, tieing the score and robbing the Bezdek machine of what a few minutes before...
...force of the army has been greatly reduced, and the whole service is now making extensive preparations for the so-called "bombing project", which will consist of a series of manouvres designed to test the capacity of the aero service to withstand the attacks of a hostile fleet. Both men and machines are now being tied up in consequence of these preparations; and to loan the Intercollegiate Association enough planes for a meet would necessitate an impossible shift in the department's present arrangements...
...prize books are purchased with the income from a fund left by Edward Hopkins, a London merchant, who was several times Governor of Connecticut Colony in the 17th century, and later warden of the fleet under Cromwell. His will expresses his desire "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times...