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...series the English universities have won three and the American three. H. M. Abrahams, Cambridge captain, won three points for the British team by taking first in the broad jump, the 100 and the 220 yard dashes. Tevis Huhn, Princeton graduate, won the low hurdles for the Englishmen giving them the one point margin of victory...
...Hart Sugden, Unionist M. P. for Lancashire, broached the subject on the floor of Commons and called for the Government to offer fair prices to magnates who are compelled to sell their objets d'art to Americans to pay their income taxes. These men would often sell to Englishmen for less money, but the English market is flat. Two 16th Century houses were recently taken down and shipped bodily to America...
Four of the English net-men will land on Friday, June 22, in order to take part in the intercollegiate championship tournament during the following week. The two remaining players will join their team mates on Monday, July 2. Before they start on their tour, the Englishmen will probably stay at Seabright...
...Scholarship Fund, established by Mrs. Davison, and are a sort of American Rhodes Scholarship, designed to aid in fostering good-will between the United States of America and Great Britain, and to create "that mutual under-standing that is the essence" of such good-will." Each year three young Englishmen are to be sent to obtain a portion of their education at the three American universities that appealed most strongly to Mr. Davison. The awards are made by committees at Oxford and Cambridge...
...books, including the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, were written there. The New York Evening Post, commenting on Prof. Pearson's plea that the war has left England too poor to do this, says: "Americans should be proud to raise part of it and Englishmen ashamed to let them raise...