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Following its traditional policy of rewarding unsung patriots,--peasant families of more than sixteen children for example,--the French government through the Ministry of Agriculture has undertaken to glorify honest and persistent toil by awarding to any farmer-proprietor who can prove that his forbears have cultivated the same plot of land for over a hundred years the order of "la Merite Agricole". Somewhat to the consternation of the Ministry the number of applicants who have come forward with proofs is relatively overwhelming. Some families claim that they have won the award several times over. One peasant has presented proof...
...entrance, rather than the present figure of eighteen or nineteen. The examinations as now prepared are not above the capacity of "any youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other...
...contest of the season Saturday afternoon at the University Squash Racquets Building the University squash team lost to the Union Boat Club, in their fourth annual encounter, three to two. This defeat gives the Crimson players the lowest position in the League, with a percentage of nine won and sixteen lost. The Union Boat Club won the championship for the second consecutive year, with the Harvard Club second, and the B. A. A. third. The loss of A. L. Smith '25 was a severe blow to the University team, since he was their most consistent winner...
...dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since the War would be a respectable garner in itself: and these collections make no pretense to all-inclusiveness...
...couple of these: The destroyer Parker, in command of Commander Wilson Brown, with a group of three subchasers, located by means of their listening devices, a submarine away out at sea west of Brest and traced her so successfully that the Parker was able to drop a barrage of sixteen depth bombs around her, injuring her so severely that she was obliged to return to port. This was the famous U-53 which sunk our destroyer, the Jacob Jones, and was so successful in attacking merchant vessels, though she was not at this time in command of Hans Rose, whose...