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...been awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valor for saving the life of a British aviator who was drowning in the Brenta River. After two Italian soldiers had been drowned in an attempt to rescue him, Wharton swam out to the aviator who was floundering in the swift current, and supported him until they reached shore. This medal is one of the highest awards given to foreigners by the Italian government, and can only be won by exceptional bravery...
...with possessions in Asia, in the North Pacific, in the Caribbean, in Central America, simply cannot carry out a policy of isolation. Nor can the richest country in the world, with enormous products and exports, with nearly fifteen million foreign born persons living within our boundaries, communicating daily with swift ships to all parts of the world, bound in a network of cables and wireless, now a creditor in thousands of millions, to many European governments, owner of immense values in foreign securities, keep out of the complications of modern industrial and economic life...
...readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...
...Committees for the Freshman Dormitories. The Standish Committee is composed of the following men: Howard Elliott, Jr., chairman, of Boston; Mitchell Gratwick, of Buffalo, N. Y.; R. N. Greenwood, of Boston, and Henry Francis Colt, of Geneseo, N. Y. The Committee of Gore consists of the following: John G. Swift, of Boston, chairman; John Crocker, of Fitchburg; Geoffrey Story Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa; and James Wesson Freeman, of Boston...
...following men from the Sophomore and Freshman classes reported for the business competition: 1921--G. W. Howe, T. M. Perry, R. S. Ward; 1922--J. V. Bright, E. K. Dunham, Jr., K. R. Groener, E. V. Otis, J. G. Swift, Jr., E. D. Weatherhead...