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West Virginia went to the other extreme by enacting what may be the most sweeping antiriot law in the country. The new law, which went into effeet last week, empowers state troopers, sheriffs or mayors to invoke riot-control procedures, bypassing the old requirement that a judge or justice of the peace must declare that a civil disturbance is a riot. Law officers can deem anyone a rioter who fails to obey a lawful order or provide requested assistance. The police are free to deputize onlookers, who will automatically be guiltless if any person present is subsequently killed or wounded...
...which competitive sports are carried on, added publicity that comes from journalistic emphasis on athletics as a source of news, the large pecuniary profits that may go with professionalism, the intense rivalries between communities and between educational institutions in support of their athletes' prowess, all these have had the effeet of making maintenance of amateur sport with its traditional indifference to monetary reward more difficult than if used to be. "Competition for the love of sport" is the essence of amateurism. According to the committee: and it is a form of competition that well wishers of athletes honor highly always...
...Lovett contributes an article on Obermann. It shows critical insight but is neutral in effeet. The author is without either fellow-feeling for, or hostility against his subject. Thus the article must be utterly unsatistactory to those who are so unfortunate as to experrence De Senancour's sorrowful mysticism and inactive melancholy, while it fails to attract those who approach Obermann as students of literature, and seek to know what others have thought of him. Mr. Lovett's article appears to lack spontaneity...
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