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...admiration of his companions of the Squadron, and who, though on the 17th of June seriously wounded in the head, refused to be relieved from duty. A few days thereafter he made a dashing attack upon several aircraft and in the course of the struggle met a glorious death...
...sport that endures through the year is fires. Nowhere north of Halifax on the best authority of seasoned travelers, do such glorious fires take place as in Cambridge, In the dark of the night or the glare of the morn, while the midnight oil is theoretically burning, the deep bell of the fire alarm sounds. And forth from the Yard and the Gold Coast, from Widener and Phillips Brooks, from every shanty, dormitory or palace between Persis smith and Perkins, the rejoicing students rush...
...four consecutive years Harvard has celebrated victories over Yale. Last Saturday was the first time under Haughton's regime that the Blue eleven has been able to cross our goal line. Such a series of glorious conquests must not be forgotten at a time of temporary defeat. Yale won a close, fiercely-contested battle and won with a superior football machine. Every gridiron contest is decided to a greater or less degree by the so-called breaks of the game. The advantages of this character certainly were with the Blue, combined with these was a well-trained, powerful unit...
Only a few weeks later this "Roi de l'Air," as he was known to the army, who had walked so often through our own College Yard, was dead on the field; shot down in an heroic effort to help his fellow-aviators-"a glorious death, face a Pennemi, for a great cause and to save a friend...
...with delight that we hear of the plan to play chess by wireless. Surely of all the triumphs of Marconi's genius none surpasses this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...