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...sent it to the Cambridge Trust Company for collection. In due course of time the Columbus bank reported that its only knowledge of the matter was through the receipt of similar checks made out to a score of Y. M. C. A. organizations all over the country. No trace of the anonymous philanthropist could be found...
...perfect weather, to turn back when his engine started missing, then to fly to sea again. This decision probably cost him his life. The plane was seen to crumple and fall. It has been found minus the motor, but the closest search has revealed no trace of the aviator. Mrs. Winifred Sperry has seen her husband survive so many hazardous experiences, thanks to his daring and skill as a pilot, that she still hopes the aviator may be found, but with each passing day the certainty of an irreparable loss to American aeronautics becomes greater...
...whole the book is well written and interesting, but the subject is handled journalistically and there is little trace of scholarship. It probably has little historical value, if any?yet it is well worth reading...
...much of a fool as the man who really studies in college. Others will claim with greater seriousness that the real value to be gained from college is the ability to meet and handle other men and that this is best acquired outside the classroom. Still others will trace the emphasis on practical achievement in college to the materialistic basis of American civilization and will contend that college men are best preparing themselves for life by the very means which Mr. Lamont condemns on the part of the private school men. Moreover, so it is claimed, they are forced...
...When we meet on this anniversary of the Armistice, is it to celebrate the war, the victory, or the peace that followed? I do not know. But this insistent fact presents itself: that every thing man does must leave its trace indelibly in human lives; that an heroic deed has its effect upon the thoughts, and therefore on the acts, of other men. For us the value of the past lies in the future, and we measure that which has been done by what it makes us do. To honor those who have greatly lived and died is doubly right...