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...frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human. One of the most wholesome things that an American can do is to read a good...
...exhibition of memorials of John Harvard and his contemporaries will open in the new Treasure Room of the University Library on Thursday at 2 o'clock. The exhibition includes views, maps, books, autographs, portraits and so forth. It will be open from 2 until 5.30 o'clock daily for about three weeks...
...mother's house in Stratford has stood, and will probably stand, for centuries, thus the story of John Harvard, so miraculously recovered in our own times, will stand forth in the future
After Burr's kick-off in the second half, the ball was punted back and forth over the middle line, and neither goal was in danger until, when on Harvard's 38-yard line, Burr punted. The kick was blocked; Kennedy caught it and ran 35 yards for the first touchdown...
...burning of the toll-gates, the closing of the Opera, the sack of the Hotel des Invalides, and finally the storming of the Bastille. The murder of Delaunay, the governor of the fortress, caused the latent bloodthirstiness of the Paris mob, whose excesses have become so famous, to break forth in all its fury...