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...Chita one informed me," he says in my rough-and-ready translation, "of a community of learned men hidden in the mountain fastnesses. Their abode, perched on one of the lofty peaks in the snow-clad Andes, is almost inaccessible to hostile philistines. There, amidst the glorious inspiration of rugged mountains and tropical valleys, they ply their brains in perfect isolation, their climate equable for work, their minds bent on the sole task of learning and teaching. Parents from all parts of the Empire, from Lake Titicaca on one hand to Gar-liccodor in the South, at great sacrifice...
...grown up in Cambridge a legend of the Bloody Crossbar, symbol of terror to those who face Harvard on the football field. It was conclusively proved in Saturday's game that for Yale men the Crimson "H" holds no fears. From beginning to end, the spectators watched a glorious struggle. Defeated in the final game of the season, the 1921 team will go down as one of Yale's great elevens and Malcolm Aldrich as one of Yale's greatest captains. Yale Daily News...
...Saturday morning entered a class-room with a blue feather conspicuous? Why should they have added by their presence to the huge cheering crowd which jammed that very mass meeting? Why should they have so intensively craved a Harvard victory and so sincerely rejoiced at the glorious triumph...
...single plant. It is obvious, then, that history in this age of world unity must differ from that of ages past. Those who claim that the Armament Conference will be just another convention of scheming diplomats are as mistaken as those who believe that the Russian upheaval is a glorious repetition of the French Revolution. We can expect more and better results from the congress that of a century ago at Vienna, for we are as aware of the change in the world since that time as we are of the difference between President Harding and the Emperor of Russia...
...speedy and capable manner in which Charles was captured shows that Central Europe has undergone a complete metamorphosis. The saddest of all blows to modern royalty must be the realization that the divine right of kings--once glorious in its supremacy--has vanished so completely even in its last strong-hold. Charles stands alone,--the pathetic symbol of a lost cause. Such is the penalty that men pay for living two centuries after their time...