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...close and your victory was not sure, but you had only begun to ridicule. For want of anyone else to do the job, the HCUA conducts the Class Marshal elections. These men are to be the core of the permanent class committee, which plans commencement, keeps the class in touch with Harvard, and is responsible for reunions and fund raising. What a perfect object for ridicule! Imagine anyone wanting to go to commencement, or keep in touch with Harvard! You could conduct two crusades with one sword. You could twist the sword in the body of the HCUA...
...would like to express to you the dismay which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...
...that the shouting, the dirty posters, the exhalations of scandal and, yes, the glory of the Class Marshal election have faded away, I feel it is time to make a statement. So many people have asked whether my campaign was a joke or serious that it is my dcty in this terribly verbal community to attempt an answer...
...Empire swept out of the East and laid siege to Vienna. His effort in the 60-day defense that was to save the city and end the Ottomans' long westward advance won him a colonelcy and his own regiment. He was a major general at 22, a field marshal before he was 30. In his 54 years of service, the Emperor's new recruit was to liberate Central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish rule, to establish Habsburg hegemony in Italy, and then to hold it and the rest of the Holy Roman Empire against...
...others: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus, France's Marshal Turenne and Frederick the Great...