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...suave and literary lawyer of Manhattan; James H. Maurer, labor ora- tor of Pennsylvania; onetime (1915-19; 1921-23) U. S. Congressman Meyer London of Manhattan; Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union; and, his grin framed with scars of battle, one-time convict Debs. Fourteen hundred diners and nearly 1,000 at the crowded doors yelled, clapped, bellowed when the hero took his seat...
...problem today is not to eliminate, but to provide as many coaches as are needed to help every undergraduate who wants to play. Exercise is a big motive and last year the Harvard Athletic Association employed forty-four paid coaches at a total cost of $75,000 to supervise fourteen different kinds of sport, for which thirty-nine different schedules were made with teams from other colleges or schools...
Then he revisited New Orleans, met Gentleman Jim Corbett in a square place with ropes around. Fourteen rounds, and the Strong Boy lay still, with blood purling down his jowls. By the ropes, Senator Roscoe Conkling, tall in black, was graven in wood; Steve Brodie, apoplectic with woe, wobbled about on his seat. Thereafter, the Strong Boy devoted himself to other activities...
...know quite well that they can not prophecy correctly, they can decide what is the present ideal of citizenship, and by pinning these ideals on some young Chicagoan, give them a humman interest and a currency which they would not have otherwise. In confining the contest to boys between fourteen and eighteen years the Federation runs the risk, of course, of selecting one who will prove a hopeless failure, since his later training is subject to human caprice, but it will succeed in formulating a definite creed of citizenship...
...Fourteen wriggling Communists...