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When Thomas Becket, Arehbishop of Canterbury, flashed his episcopal cross on the earls and barons of the Great Council in defiance of the mightiest king in the Western world there arose a storm of discussion whose interest has survived the dust of the chronicles by which it was recorded. It was a case of clash of convictions. When Edmund Burke arose to impeach Warren Hastings on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors there was no talk of the pedantry and dry formalism of debate; against the fire of intense personal conviction and the crusading zeal of a diligent investigator...
...English films include attempts at Sheridan's The School for Scandal and George Eliot's Daniel Dcronda. Tennyson's Becket and Scott's Young Lochinvar are in production...
...moves for the restoration of the monarchical system of government, but he is always seen with legal eyes as a good republican. A storm is breaking above his head and, republican or monarchist, he is playing a dangerous game. As Henry II of England once said of Thomas a Becket, Germany now says of General Ludendorff: "Will no one rid me of this troublesome...
...Rouillard '23, back 21 5.05 172 Chicopee High Philip Spalding '25, quarterback 20 5.09 142 Milton P. H. Theopold '25, tackle 20 6.01 175 St. Marks G. W. Tower '23, tackle 21 5.11 185 New Rochelle High Yale Statistics Name and Position Age Height Weight Prep. School C. G. Becket, back 21 5.11 170 East Orange H. S. E. C. Bench, back 20 5.10 168 Exeter E. F. Blair, end 20 6.03 187 Hotchkiss J. T. Cochran, back 22 6.00 175 Mobile H. S. H. K. Cross, guard 22 6.01 245 Salisbury Cruikshank, guard 21 6.00 218 Hotchkiss...
Coach T. A. D. Jones, on the other hand, will be handicapped by the loss of O'Hearn and Becket, both of whom are at present on the injured list and will probably not get in to tomorrow's game...