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...again, with the Seiyu-honto alternately baiting and encouraging both. There was drawing to a close perhaps the stormiest session of the Imperial Diet in many years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years. As a schoolboy he won the same title in archery, fencing, running, rowing, tennis and baseball. After graduating "summa cum laude" with a law degree from the Imperial University at Tokyo (1892), he entered the Imperial Department of Finance...
Under an imported ceiling depicting the more unprintable scenes from Ovid, she held "salons" in Old World style-and thither flocked celebrities American and European. She hired a lion from Bostock Circus, took it home for a pet. She mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored...
...Cheek Jr. '26, acting secretary of the organization, has arranged a unique entertainment in connection with the meeting. T. S. Yang 2G. Ed. will give a Chinese Sword Dance and C. Kuriyama 1G will give an exhibition of jiu-jitsu. A musical program is also planned. After the meeting, refreshments will be served...
...Mayor of Tokyo, Viscount Goto, selected Shojo Usui, veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who holds the fourth rank of the Kodo-kan School of Jiu-Jitsu, to be his bodyguard. The Mayor chose a jiu-jitsu exponent because he believes that this famous art of self-defense is the most effective. Mayor Goto has recently received threatening letters because of his connection with the visit of A. A. Joffe, representative of the Russian Soviet...
...second smoker of the Sophomore class will be held in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. There will be several performances by outside talent as well as an exhibition of jiu-jitsu and sleight-of-hand tricks by members of the class. As this will be the last smoker of the year, all members of the class are urged to attend and insure its success...