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Anthony Hicks Brackett '22 of Jamaica Plain was elected captain for next year of the University swimming team at a meeting of the 1920 team held yesterday. During this season Brackett has been the individual star of the team winning a total of 66 points as compared with 32 won by G. S. Worcester '22, his closest rival. He is a dash man and was entered only in the 50 and 100-yard events this winter. In the 11 meets held this year he has won eight first places and in addition two second places in the New England Intercollegiates...
University Swimming.--Anthony Hicks Brackett '22, of Jamaica Plain; Lucius Barbour Davis '21, of New York City; William Wilson Douglass '22, of Brookline; Abram Levy, Jr., '21, of Augusta, Ga.; Arthur MacKay Stoddard '21, of La Salle, III.; Ernest C. Mott-Smith '22, of Honolulu; Gardner Tilton '20, of Lexington; Gurdon Saltonstall Worcester '22, of Boston; and Henry Serrano Villard '21. Manager, of New York City...
...That seems to be something the so-called Republican leaders have entirely forgotten. They talk about sitting around the conference and picking the President of the United States as if the ordinary, plain, everyday folks were to have nothing to say about it. The day has gone by when a few men can select a President for the people, and the sooner the old crowd in the Reublican party learns this, the better it will be for the perpetuity of the party...
...point about the "firing squad" is concerned, I think Mr. Shubow is taking too much for granted when he assumes that Mr. Wyman wants to shoot every misguided American who thinks the Reds are not getting a square deal. On the contrary, Mr. Wyman makes it plain that "disloyal citizens and spies" are the ones to be "used as targets for a firing squad." In this he is perfectly right, and I know from experience, gained in the last two or three years, that the firing squad is an easy and effective method of getting rid of such traitors...
...Shubow states that he is "just a plain American." This is a bit indefinite, but as the American Legion is setting the standard of Americanism today, I suppose this is the standard to which he refers. If this is so, he has laid himself open to the charge of not living up to the standard because the American Legion never speaks; of the Reds except to say "treat 'em rough" and "kick...