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...Reading Room of the Union, the annual Union dinner will be held, with Lieutenant-Colonel Banford MacNider '11, National Commander of the American Legion, as the guest of honor. Lieutenant-Colonel MacNider was decorated three times during the war, having received the "Distinguished Service Cross with oak leaf cluster", the "Legion d'Bonneur", and the "Croce al Merito di Geurra". Mr. George Wigglesworth '74, President of the Union, will act as toastmaster...
...Union. Lieutenant-Colonel Hanford MacNider '11, National Commander of the American Legion, will be the guest of honor. Lieutenant Colonel MacNider was commissioned as a second lieutenant in July, 1917, and rose to his present rank during the war, being awarded the "Distinguished Service Cross with oak leaf cluster", the Legion d'Honneur", and the "Croce al Merito di Guerra...
...Golden Age of Inca history, there was a highly developed written language, consisting of signs and symbols which I cannot describe here, and written most often on dried jugilatsi or plantain leaves, sometimes on another leaf like the elephant-ear or burdock--these being unaccountably preferred for public writings because of their cumber-some size Now it came to pass (as they say in the fairy stories) that one season the burdock leaves all withered, and the sun-prophets prophesied evil, declaring that the almighty Sun was withered the leaves because of displeasure at what was written thereon...
...This is the shape of the leaf, and this of the flower...
...flower, and the leaf, and the three pale beautiful pilgrims...