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Since the turn of the century it has been the custom for each country, which is host to the worlds athletes during their efforts to gain Olympic laurels, to stage an exhibition match of its favorite game. As college football was felt to represent a popular and at the same time amateur sport, various students from East and West were invited to participate. The academic regulations at Harvard forbid students to play in such contests while they are candidates for degrees, but the eligibility of graduates for such a team is unquestioned. W. B. Wood...
...leak in the city's trunkline sewer. Expertly they flipped off the manhole lid. Ten feet below, icy black water, full of awful things, surged on to the Hudson. Once this sewer had been an open creek. When it was enclosed 35 years ago, engineers, according to the custom of the times, gave it great girth for a full current...
...effort is being made to encourage residents to hold dinners in their rooms before the dance. Permission to do this may be obtained from the Head Tutor, and the accommodations for food can be secured at moderate rate by consulting the steward of the dining halls. Last year the custom was tried by several residents, and proved successful; residents who are entertaining guests from out of town are in this way enabled to make a few acquaintances before reaching the ball. Arrangements as to the receiving line, ushers, refreshments, and music are still in a formulative stage, but the committee...
Cases still pending last week were in Denver, Jersey City, N. J. and Washington where the Post, copying a biennial custom of righteous Washington Star, had begun a "crusade." Owlish District Attorney Leo A. Rover bought one of the offending magazines in a drugstore, read it on his way home. Whatever his first reactions may have been, the effect of finding his young daughter reading the same magazine was galvanic. He ordered the arrest of 150 newsdealers, six of whom were to be tried this week. In partial defense against the obscenity charge Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. could point...
...long been the custom to write of popular heroes with a zeal which prolonged their life and works through six or eight carefully documented volumes. While such biography yielded much rich material to scholars it was a tedious task for the laymen. The average reader cared little for the diplomatic achievements of a Disraeli, but he was most anxious to know what manner of man he might be. This desire Strachey was able to fulfill. He employed sufficient facts to block in his background and enough psychology to sketch in the personality. His first work was followed by a life...