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...field artillery unit at the University has been named by the War Department as a possible competitor for the team of American army officers which is to enter into riding events against similar organizations from other nations at the Olympic Games, to be held at Antwerp, Belgium, during the latter part of August and the first of September...
...Clark, Jr., LL.B. '05, has been elected captain of the trap-shooting team which will represent the United States in the Olympic Games at Antwerp. Mr. Clark will have full power to select the team which will probably be composed of eight men. He is a member of the Boston Athletic Association...
...unusual collection of early Dutch books is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room in Widener Library. These books are all first editions, mainly the works of Christopher Plantain, of Antwerp, and of the Eleven family of Amsterdam. Several other early Dutch printers are represented...
Christopher Plantain was born in a village near Tours in 1514. He settled in Antwerp in 1549. Tradition affirms that he was first interested in typography as a result of a wounded arm. His workmanship earned for him a reputation as the best printer of his time. In 1562, while Plantain himself was absent, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, as a result of which his movable equipment was seized and sold. He succeeded in establishing a new press which was later destroyed by the Spaniards who plundered the town...
American sportsmen, and we hope the American public as well, will rejoice to learn that the American Olympic team will sail for Antwerp in July with the official backing of the American Government. At a series of conferences held on Thursday in Washington, between the Olympic committee and high officials of the Government, American participation in the Olympic games received the formal endorsement of the Administration, and several high officials, including Secretaries Daniels and Baker, accepted honorary membership on the committee. It is eminently fitting that the Government should give such endorsement to the Olympic program. The two hundred...