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...emphasized the fact that the fund collected is not given for "charity" in the ordinary sense of the word. The spirit of the donation is one of cooperative help rather than alms giving. The money is devoted in the greater part to establishing institutions which will, enable the poverty-stricken students to support themselves while they carry on their study...
Throughout the World War he carried on work in the Y. M. C. A. at the University, and at the same time engaged in extensive relief activities among the stricken population of Syria...
...some 60 years after its founding, the University was confronted with financial ruin. An appeal for aid was sent to an alumnus, Charles H. Lewis of Boston, a successful business man. On the stipulation that Norwich University became Lewis College, the Bostonian offered financial assistance to the poverty-stricken institution. This was accepted. It served to tide the school over the most trying period in its existence. Two years later, Mr. Lewis met business reverses. Fulfillment of his agreement in whole became impossible. In 1884, Lewis College again became Norwich University...
...Admiral was selected in 1918 to fulfill the baneful task of handing over the stricken Empire's fleet to the enemy. To men whose whole lives had been spent in the Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when...
...mile Special, covered that distance in 6 min. 39 2/5 sec. ?2 2/5 seconds under the record made by Ray two years ago. Ray started in the race. At the end of the third lap, pressing his hand to his side in the fashion of one stricken with a cramp, he dropped out. "Boo," went the gallery. But the gallant Ray, having many times given proof of his courage, trotted heedless to the locker rooms...