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...this cheerful readiness to provide a feast for every eye that so endears the British Royal Family to Englishmen and partly accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander...
...other hand came carpers maintaining that Rhodes Scholars come home scornful of U. S. culture; aloof, superior, spoiled, affected. They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home. Lately they have been criticized by Englishmen, and justly, for clubbing together at Oxford, avoiding the very contacts they are supposed to enjoy, injecting into the Oxford atmosphere an undesirable element, especially in competitive athletics, where they monopolize the play and attention...
Besides Professor Cushing, Professor C. L. Hana, Cornell, and W. S. Thayer, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, will receive the distinction. The occasion is the visit of the British Medical Association to Edinburgh. All other recipients are Englishmen, with the exception of one eminent representative each of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...
...Wembley Stadium near London, King-Emperor George V and 90,000 rooters also saw a socker game last week. Eleven Welshmen from Cardiff defeated eleven Englishmen from Woolwich Arsenal (London), 1 to 0, thereby winning the championship of. Great Britain. No riots ensued, even though 250,000 people crowded around the stadium hoping...