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...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...369th Regiment, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. General Petain made the award with the following citation:--"Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., commander of Co. K, 369th Infantry Regiment, being on furlough; came back to spend his furlough with the regiment, knowing it had been engaged. Has rendered precious services--exposed incessantly to danger--before, during, and after the taking of a village, and in establishing contact between the regiment and his battalion...
Farewell, mighty hunter! You were the swiftest, cleanest and most valorous of your tribe. You pressed the hunt fearlessly and to its logical ends, not infantasy through the clouds, but in fact on this earth, where the consequences are. Innumerable and precious are the trophies. We place them at your feet. Would that there were demons of darkness and unrighteousness in the path you are now on. For you would slay them all and like it more...
...must be said, however, that there is at least an element of the miraculous in the University's escape forth more serious loss of the precious documents and historical papers which had been stored in the building. According to all casual opinion it must seem an inexcusable negligence which ever hazarded these records to the keeping of so old a building, quite without any system of fireproofing. At least they might have been kept in protected vaults. Boston Transcript...
...this time the album will form for every member of the graduating class an especially precious reminder of his college years. By the immediate service which our young men are called on to perform, without dallying and without evasion, many members of the class will meet the briefer and the more glorious end of life. It is well that their classmates shall not forget them...