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...interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed for reading in history as much s in literature. The actual order...
...then settled down to a well rowed 29 while the 1924 boat rowed at about 31. All the way down the first mile the two crews kept this distance between them with first one and then the other spurting in an endeavor to increase or close up the gap...
...leaders who have brought about this transformation,--the makers of modern Japan,--have been the Genre, the "Elder Statesmen". Few if any of them are new left, and the gap left by the death of the Empire's two greatest is almost beyond repair. General Tanaka, the logical successor to Prince Yamagata as military leader, cannot represent the Choshn clan, which has traditionally supplied leaders of the military party. Viscount Kiyoura has succeeded the late Prince as President of the Privy Council, but he can never succeed to his hold on the destinies of the nation...
...University grapplers who will stage their bouts at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium are scarcely better off, for the loss of Captain H. B. Walker '22, and the temporary absence of Curtis Nelson '24 have made a wide gap in the regular line-up. The disadvantage is partially offset, however, by the fact that P. G. Keigher, the captain of the Green team, broke his wrist in the Yale meet on February 22 anr so will be unable to compete. So far, the Dartmouth mat-men have not had a particularly successful season, but with both teams weakened...
...Crimson team is still handicapped by the loss of Captain H. B. Walker '22 who has been out with an injury. His place will be filled by A. W. Lewin '24 who had had no experience until he was recently called into play to fill the gap...