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...complications of hearing defects and their prevalence have stimulated many a doctor to become a specialist in that branch of medicine. Mentioned at last week's conference as topnotchers of their communities were Drs. Wendell C. Phillips, Arthur Baldwin Duel and Edmund Prince Fowler of Manhattan; Dr. Austin Albert Hayden, Chicago; Dr. Max Aaron Goldstein, St. Louis; Dr. Horace Newhart, Minneapolis...
...Laverne Fator, No. 2 U. S. jockey, up on Patroness: a duel with Earl Sande, No. 1 U. S. jockey, on Flying Gal, in the Hanover handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., by a half-length...
...college football games as barbaric, the initiations of U. S. college fraternities as infantile. Last week, through the enterprise of press photographers, the U. S. was given an intimate contemporary view of a European college activity seldom viewed by outsiders-the Schläger mensur or "sport duel," as still practiced secretly with sharp sabres at the foremost universities of Germany...
...Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg especially, dueling is preserved by the students in defiance of national law, in the belief that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
...thrust with the point, is permitted. After eight slashes and parries, the seconds seize the sword arms, doctors examine the damage. Unless one contestant is unable to stand up, the affray continues until one faints from loss of blood or has suffered sufficient disfigurement to make the duel satisfactory...