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...Story. Those extraordinary young men, who throughout the last century devoted themselves to creating what is now known as the British Commonwealth of Nations, were apt to start almost anyhow and end almost everywhere. Sir Harry Johnston began life as a student of painting and zoology in London; he is ending it by writing vigorous novels in which there appear imaginary descendants of Dickens' characters; and he spent the intervening time in the British consular service...
...great age of African exploration, when the world was thrilling to the achievements of Livingstone and Stanley, and the statesmen of Europe were at the height of their wild scramble for all the remaining corners of the earth. Young Johnston drifted naturally into Colonial administration as a Vice Consul in the Cameroons. Thereafter he served all over Africa, from Nigeria in the West to Mount Kilimanjaro and Nyasaland in the East. With an incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with...
...team last night failed to win the interclass debating championship. A quartet of Sophomore speakers downed the 1927 men by a two to one vote of the judges. On the victorious team were W. C. McFerron, C. C. Graig, A. G. King, and T. E. Finley, while C. H. Johnston, L. S. King, D. L. Dickson, and W. D. Morton argued for the class...
...Resolved: That enrolment in American colleges and universities should be restricted only by raising the standards of competitive entrance attainments," will be the subject under discussion. The 1927 speakers will undertake to prove the affirmative of this proposition. They will be C. H. Johnston, L. S. King, D. L. Dicknon, and W. D. Morton. Against them will argue for the class of 1925, C. C. Craig, T. E. Finley, A. G. King, and W. G. McForren...
...question debated was: "Resolved: "That enrolment should be limited by raising the standards of the present system of competitive entrance examinations." The winning Freshman team was, composed of C. H. Johnston, L. S. King, D. L. Dickson, and W. D. Morton, while the losers were D. W. Chapman, J. R. Cherry, L. J. Fain, and F. J. Otis...