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...naval limitation treaty. After taking counsel of the Department of State, Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, reported last week a vigorous Naval Constitution Bill, appropriating $110,560,000. The bill calls for the conversion of the six defective battleships into oil-burners, blister protection against submarines, further deck protection against air attack, and new fire controls on the New York and Texas-the whole at a cost of $18,360,000. In addition, the building program calls for eight scout cruisers, costing $11,000,000 each, and six river gunboats (for Chinese service...
Unhappily for those who had hoped to solve the problem of the old royalist army by this method, the Hungarian duel seldom ends fatally. A scratch on the arm, a blister on the heel, is considered ample satisfaction for the demands of honor. Indeed, to badly injure one's opponent is shocking bad taste, for it prevents his attending the drinking party which usually winds up these affairs. We thus have the example of a nation -- on the brink of economic and social disruption -- playing at Lords and Ladies until tea-time. They seem to have quite forgotten that when...
...Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa accepts with alacrity the challenge of the Harvard Chapter to meet on the baseball field for a test of strength, endurance and wits. We have already begun to blister our lily-white hands and arouse disquieting pains in our stalwart right arms...
Owing to a severe blister on Hollister's hand, he did not row yesterday and will be obliged to lay off for some days to come. His absence necessitated a complete shaking up of yesterday's crew. Lewis proved unsatisfactory at stroke so R. H. Stevenson was placed there. Perkins rowed No. 7; Shepard, 6; Jennings, 5; Watriss, 4; Lewis, 3; Fennessy, 2; Bullard...
...probably with fatal results to some. The accident will serve to emphasize the importance of placing some regulation and restraint upon college sports. Probably the best way this could be done would be to make athletic training a part of the curriculum. If a student were compelled to blister his hands with a pair of oars, or cripple his fingers with a hard base ball, or "stand up" before Prof. John L. Sullivan for a specified time every day, perhaps the fascination would wear off, and he might be induced to give some little time and a little thought...