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...Fourteen U. S. universities must now find space to hang 100 pictures apiece. The French donors frankly admit a shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered...
AIRDROME RAIDED-FOURTEEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED COLUMBUS R. R. YARD WRECKED CINCINNATI WIPED OUT RAID REPULSED-FOUR BOMBERS DOWN-CREWS KILLED-OUR LOSSES SLIGHT...
...bedraggled group of Gastonia, N. C., strikers appeared in Washington to tell their grievances. They were snubbed by the National Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation...
...When I was fourteen," Arielle resumed, "My good aunt in Chicago sent...
...Fourteen prizes in as many events have been put up by various Harvard alumni, the discus throw being the only event on the program for which there is no special award for the victor. Each year the name of the victor is inscribed upon the cup for his event, and this year as a new departure, the winner will also receive a picture of the cup. Medals are awarded for second and third places in each event...