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...morning and afternoon sessions will be devoted to business and inspirational programs, and the National Oratorical Contest will occupy the evening. This contest is a culmination of a two years' series of smaller contests. About 1500 students wrote and delivered orations in 290 local college and university contests. The winners of these locals competed again in state contests, and the victors in these 70 state contests met in seven interstate trials. The prize orators of these interstates will compete at Des Moines for national honors...
...reply to a request from the University tennis management for the attitude of the United States Lawn Tennis Association in regard to the awarding of a major letter, Mr. S. Wallace Merrihew, editor of "American Lawn Tennis," official organ of the U. S. N. L. T. A., wrote as follows...
...more needy students, has removed the chief bar in the way of the change and has thus enabled the Law School to add to its income an amount equivalent to the income from an endowment of nearly $1,000,000. In his letter accompanying the gift Mr. Epstein wrote as follows of the Law School...
...made by the Administration forces met a stone wall of resistance. Senator Edge, Republican, of New Jersey, said to the Democrats: "Here is the treaty. Take it or leave it!" The rights and privileges of the United States could have been adequately safeguarded by mild interpretative resolutions; the Republicans wrote in amendment after amendment--labelled "reservations"--with the avowed purpose of killing the Treaty, at what cost to the world they cared not a whit. The promises they made in the heat of war, the pledges they gave to those men who laid down their lives that the Senate might...
Holberg was the founder of Danish literature and is considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. He came into Danish literature at a time when it was said, "a man wrote Latin to his friends, talked French to the ladies, and called his dogs in German, and only used Danish to swear at his servants." Before his death he had established a theatre, supplied it with comedies, and contributed masterpieces of poetry, and essays. His plays are of universal interest due to his extensive travels. It was while he was a student at Oxford that...