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...jerseys. Cambridge stars included Leather, whose father was a British International (equivalent to U. S. All-America) in 1907 ; K. C. Fyfe, a good dropkicker, who played wing three-quarter against Oxford last year and the year before, won his Blue and International in his freshman year at Caius College; J. E. Bowcott, 145-Ib. scrum-half, smallest man on the team, whose spectacular lateral passing led to three Cambridge tries; Cliff Jones, a spry little 154-lb. Welsh freshman of Clare College, already considered one of the best stand-off halves in England. He recovered from a tonsillectomy just...
...Vienna the socialite International Country Club was raided by rollicking young Fascists who toppled over tables, smashed crockery & chairs, attacked the guests with clubs fashioned of broken furniture. Raining blows upon one Walter A. Baldwin of Boston they bruised him severely. Aristocratic Dr. Caius Brediceanu, Minister to Austria of the Kingdom of Rumania, was kicked from behind, rolled over & over down the terrace steps. Even women were smacked in the face and elsewhere by the young Fascists until suddenly the Club secretary appeared, pistol in hand, cool...
Debater F. E. Jones of Caius College argued against Chicago: "It is governed by two heathen Gods: Mars, the God of Battle; and Bacchus, God of the Bottle." This alliteration was well received. Finally Edgar Wallace argued for Chicago- (it was pleasantly impossible at times to tell who was for what): "The lynch law will eventually wipe out those deplorable men who sit in the seat of government." Having amused themselves thus for a whole evening, members of the Cambridge Union voted 171 to 143 that Chicago must experience the fate of Carthage...
Honorary degrees were awarded to two foreign legal scholars by the Harvard Law School. The recipients of these honorary doctorships of law were William W. Buckland, president of Caius and Gonville colleges, Cambridge, England, Regius professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and one of the outstanding authorities of the world on Roman Law, and Perey H. Winfield. Rouse Professor of English Law at Cambridge...
Herbert Howard, son of Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., in company with one Edward Bullough, fellow student at Caius College, Cambridge, paid a visit to Pope Pius XI. They presented to His Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor of Cambridge, and the Blessed Thomas More, onetime Lord Chancellor of England. In the 16th Century these men opposed King Henry VIII's divorce from his first (Catholic) wife; both were beheaded. The Pontiff conversed with the two youths for one half hour, recalling his visits to England...