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Home from 75,000 miles of travel up and down Africa, a British missionary brought news. A photograph showed a long, lean, brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set...
. . . . And the overshadowing influence of football does not end with the last game of the season. The sport distorts the whole social structure of the average American college. Even in the most professedly democratic institutions caste, grows up around football prowess. . . . One of the literary clubs of Yale languished until...
(6) For the equipment of a caste; for the polishing off and certification of members of an elite, an intellectual aristocracy, or some vaguely differentiated cult of "leaders" in the body politic.
For many weeks, the Presidency of Bombay has echoed the demands of the people, particularly of the Parsis,* for British justice. The echo is a reverberation of the nautch (dancing) girl affair: A nautch girl, member of the Maharaja of Indore's harem, escaped from Indore, a sovereign Hindu...
It was reasoned, therefore, that an example would be made of the Maharaja and that he would be dethroned (as was his father, in 1903, by Lord Curzon) in favor of his 14-year-old son. The difficulties in the way of doing this are enormous. On the one hand...