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...when some Chicago American League baseball players were convicted of receiving bribes for "throwing" their World's Series with Cincinnati. Investigation showed the cause of the new nuisance to lie with certain members of the New York National League baseball team. Officials were quick to air matters and eject two contaminated persons. Sportdom's olfactories had relief, but memory persisted...
...statistics cited are possibly accurate, but entirely too much reliance may be placed on their supposed significance. The classics are avowedly difficult. By that very token the students who eject them are more likely to be men of the scholarly type, men who would naturally excel in any field of scholastic endeavor. Once this is admitted a certain stigma of futility attaches itself to the statistics of the League. The organization might employ its time to better advantage in showing the value of the ancient authors to modern thought, the message which the mellowed wisdom of the ages...
...Catholics and Socialists would be strange table-fellows at a Cabinet meeting. They could unite to eject M. Theunis, but could they unite to rule in his stead? That was the question which faced King Albert...
...Presbyterians will meet in General Assembly at Grand Rapids, Mich. Nearly half the delegates will be Fundamentalists in fighting, angry mood, 'determined to eject Liberalism root and branch. All the delegates will be faced with the necessity of raising $15,000,000 to provide munitions for the Church Militant at home and abroad. All of them will be confronted with the 20th Century challenge to the Cross. They must have a leader, what they call a "Moderator...
Since the forcible ejection of pugilist Siki from the New York Bar in Paris, discussion of Negro rights has become serious. Even the Chamber of Deputies is going to discuss the question of whether a café proprietor has the right to eject black Frenchmen...