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Since 1902 Langford has been known and respected by the followers of the prize ring. In better days he was so well known and so highly respected that none of the existing champions could be inveigled into the ring with him. Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard?none of them would fight him after they acquired their titles. Accordingly Sam dug along fighting second raters for small money. Joe Jeanette, also a Negro, was his usual opponent. They fought more than 20 battles, Langford winning the majority. The one man in the world that Langford did not care to meet...
Candidates for degrees in this Lodge must be men connected with University as officers, Instructors, students, or employees. The officers of the new organization were elected as follows: Guy H. Holliday '89, W. M.; M. G. Roberts '23, S. W.; Jess H. Jackson, J. W.; Edwin A. Shaw, treasurer; J. E. Bagley Sp., secretary; Professor Kirsopp Lake, chaplain; W. A. Hosmer '18, instruction marshal; D. B. Baker '08, S. D.; Dr. F. A. Hamilton '06, J. D.; E. S. Russell '19, S. S.; A. A. Schaefer '06, J. S.; D. W. Wainhouse '24, I. S.; C. A. Young, organist...
...this year. The matches were very hard and cleanly fought, and the type of boxing was high. This is evident from the fact that John L. Sullivan, former boxing champion, has tried to arrange an bout between D. G. Kirkpatrick '17, winner of the heavyweight bout last spring, and Jess Willard, present world's champion...
...last meeting of the President and Fellows of the University the following appointments were made: Wilson George Smillie, M.D., Assistant in Preventive Medicine and Hygiene; Jess Lunt Bullock '14, Assistant in Chemistry Edward M. Gilbert, Research Fellow in Botany; Charles A. Culver, Research Fellow in Physics; George Parker Winship '93, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widner Collection...
...truth; but the author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush...