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...German armies shattered in France, none was in worse plight than the Nineteenth, which had had the job of holding the Mediterranean coast and the great Rhone-Saone highway to Dijon and the Rhine. Hamstrung by Allied air power before it could even get into action, the Nineteenth has never had much of a chance...
When the Americans reached Alençon, Field Marshal von Kluge recognized the mistake he had made. After Omar Bradley broke into Brittany (TIME, Aug. 7), Kluge had a choice to make. He could have brought his Fifteenth Army down from Flanders and his Nineteenth Army up from southern France and drawn the Seventh Army back so that the three could form a new front along the Seine and the Loire. But this would have involved leaving the Pas-de-Calais and Belgian robomb coasts and southern France open to attack...
Russians revere the memory of their great nineteenth-century poet, Alexander Pushkin. Last week, to their tally of Nazi crimes was added confirmation of what the retreating Germans had done to the Pushkin shrine at the Sviatogor Monastery. The poet's grave was desecrated, relics were stolen, manuscripts were used as fuel. The monastery itself was bombed. Cried one Russian...
During the nineteenth century this was transformed into an oral examination by the Board of Overseers. This duty grev highly uncongenial to the Overseers, and was dropped about 1870. But until 1891 the President used to read each candidate's name aloud at Commencement and receive the "placets" of the Overseers a representatives of the Masters' gild...
This medieval method still goes on in the Catholic colleges; but at Harvard Commencement parts in English were substituted in he nineteenth century. Yet the Commencement Programme is still the Seniors' programme. The "candidate" are all in the nominative case, Inviting the guests to the ceremony, before the dignitarion. In the colonial period, the Seniors paid for the programme themselves, and there was a great row in 1733 when they shifted their patronage from a printer of reputed Tory leanings to one more patriotic in his sentiments...