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...dissatisfaction lived on. Last week some 20 students were given the exercise of sketching, in a classic pose, a pendulous woman well known to several generations of Beaux Artists. They worked busily. In half an hour the master called for the sketches, discovered 20 lifelike representations of a camel...
...main point of the Wesleyan speakers was that the present athletic program has failed to live up to what they termed the "democratic ideal". The traditional figure of the tall wagging the dog was discarded by the losers for one of more ancient derivation, that of the camel crowding the Arab out of his tent...
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...Detroit, some Shriners were tormenting a sad circus-camel that had been procured to contribute a big laugh to some approaching initiations. They caused him to serve as a "hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner...
...appears that General Sarrail, by way of intimidating the anti-French populace of Damascus on his return from capturing Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), ordered that the corpses of various brigands whom the French had shot down should be paraded through the streets on camel back. Three days later the bodies of twelve Circassians (French irregulars) were found dead out-side the Bab Esh Sharol gate. Came night, and French soldiers were attacked and mutilated in one of the slums of Damascus. Came another night, and bands of Druse tribesmen filtered into the city. Three purposes have been ascribed to them...