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...news that Harry Hawker and his navigator Grieve, the daring pair who tried to be the first to cross the Atlantic by airplane, are safe again on English soil and were royally feted on their arrival last night in London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational...
...fought, and under which our fore-fathers fought. More than once since I returned from France have I seen or heard things that were insults. They were insults not only to the cause for which we fought, but to our comrades whom we left wrapt in the sacred soil of France. It is our duty to see that their graves are not trampled upon. MARSHALL A. THOMPSON...
...bookish, as a bookman should be, and sometimes the very richness and whimsicality of his bookish fancies marred the simplicity and good taste of his pages. But the fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction to the New England scene. Wit and humor and wisdom made him one of the best talkers of his generation. These qualities pervade his essays and his letters, and the latter in particular reveal those ardons and fidelities...
...than his opponents will allow him when he says that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...
...Government took over the control of military training this fall, Captain Morize had a very large part in the preparation of the R. O. T. C. men for service in the war. Many a University man, trained under his experienced direction, now lies among the honored dead on French soil, or survives among the heroic soldiers of America. Consequently, we feel that he has helped the University to play the proud and leading part which it has been her good fortune to have in the war for freedom...