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...more interesting from a local standpoint, is the Battle of the Big Three. Eli Yale, which recently announced a Yale Plan which provides for every man in college, has two more alumni than Harvard. The Bulldog graduates number 23, and there are 21 Cambridge-educated sailors. The Princeton Tiger will be somewhat out of the running if things come to a showdown. Ten men from Old Nassau are listed at the school. M.I.T. has 16 men in training...
...Highness Maharaja Holkar of Indore is familiarly called "Junior" by his American friends, wears canary yellow suits and gives lavish tiger-hunting parties. He is married to an American girl, the former Margaret Lawler. Unlike most of the other 561 princely potentates (see cuts), he is known for his liberalism. He speaks for himself, perhaps not for others whose kingdoms, as Lord Halifax said, are "enshrined in solemn treaties" between them and their King-Emperor. Junior announced: "Isolation of the Indian states is now a thing of the past and I hope they will associate themselves more directly with national...
...Flying Tiger Blood...
...surprise to the Chinese that the fighter commander, lanky Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr., rode up front in the forays. Colonel Scott, only 34, had worked subordinately as a wingman with the A.V.G.s to learn the tricks of Jap fighting. Older than most of the Flying Tiger men, he was still of their breed and generation, had the right amount of calculating recklessness...
...Grew, a young Boston-Groton-Harvard-man, crawled into a cave in China and shot a tiger just four feet in front of him. This feat so impressed Theodore Roosevelt that, although he was leary of Boston snobbery in the diplomatic service, he appointed Joe Grew clerk to the consul general in Cairo...