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...slides to be shown tonight will illustrate the most recent excavations made in various cities under the Fascist Regime. Among these latest discoveries are the foundations of the Circus Maximus in Rome, a wood and stone coliseum capable of seating 300,000 persons. Mr. Burchell will explain the further plans for excavations in Pompell and Herculaneum and for the draining of a lake whose bottom holds the pleasure large of the Emperor Tiberins, sunk in the second century of the Christian...
...says, "At present the intercollegiate sports resembles less those of 50 years ago than they do the world series of the professional baseball leagues, the games in the coliseum at Rome or the races in Constantinople which brought Justinian into conflict with the populace", but "the true end lies in promoting physical development and well being throughout the student body." This is an enlightened and straightforward recognition of the distorted values which have been placed on collegiate athletics. It gives assurance of corrective measures at Harvard and hope that they will be applied generally in the colleges and universities...
...Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago Coliseum waited. Referee Yanger raised Walker's hand, gave him the middleweight championship of the world, amid the boos and groans of those who thought Flowers had the best...
Black-shirted Fascists stood row upon row in the vast Coliseum. To hear the words of II Duce del Fascismo there had come to Rome not mere newsgatherers but news, potentates such as Publisher Walter A. Strong of the Chicago Daily News who personally wrote, signed and put a story on the wire...
...Vatican three Mexican hierarchs. To them His Holiness spoke words, of comfort and hope, promised to give Mexico a rich ostensorium which he received at the recent beatification of the French Revolutionary martyrs (TIME, Oct. 25). Next, a magnificent procession wound its way through crowded streets-towards the Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed in the Basilica of the Holy Cross. On a base containing a stone from Mount Calvary...