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Exactly what happened, and exactly where, may never be clear. In the sun-baked district of Ualual, claimed by Abyssinians to be 100 kilometers inside their frontier, and claimed by Italians to be in Italian Somaliland, an Italian force had to fight for the surprisingly long time of three days...
The only two men who are out of the Princeton fracas are Frank Little field and Charlie Kessler. The latter has been suffering from injuries all season and has now retired for the year in order to have an operation performed on his knee
The Caseymen's little fracas with the first-year men was purely defensive as far as the Varsity was concerned. Using typical Rockne plays and some assorted specimens brought back by the scouts from the Crusaders' recent engagements, the Freshman outfit swung into action in a way that was quite...
Hugh S. Johnson has in the last twelve-month had many a scrap but until last week he never met adversaries who could and would match him invective for invective. As in the automobile labor fracas, he had two adversaries to beat into agreement: 1) the steelmasters headed by Eugene...
The Charlestown affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with...