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Younger Britons know the son-blessed young Maharaja as a keen sportsman. Elder Britons recall how his foster father the late Maharaja of Jaipur came to King-Emperor Edward VII's coronation in London "without leaving Jaipur soil." This he smartly did by taking with him a large boxful of the said soil, upon which he squatted in London when he ate his meals, quaffed Jaipur water...
With only two of last year's letter-men back for the coming season, competition for berths on the team this season will be very keen. Formal practice, preceded by ten days of informal work, began on November 23. Thirty-four men are now out for the Freshman team, while the University squad has grown until about 45 candidates are competing for the eight places...
...with dark hair parted in the middle and ending in ear-protecting buns, with a head that rises to a point and sinks to chinlessness, Margaret Kennedy's face is not as attractive as her writing; but you can tell by her eyes that she is intelligent, humorous, keen. Other books: The Ladies of Lyndon, A Long Weekend, Red Sky at Morning, The Fool of the Family...
Whereas the accumulative glamour of past meetings cannot be said to drape today's contest in the robe of tradition, there yet exists that keen rivalry and high interest which is always present when teams of manifest training and ability take to the field. Questions of expediency to one side, there is an undeniable zest to intersectional hostilities which can only be accounted for by the novelty of the contrast presented by strange names and different methods meeting and clashing with those more familiar...
...cause of the keen interest which everyone has shown in the recent Sino-Japanese crisis is found in the fear of another world war. Predictions have been made since the last great war that the next one would start in the Orient. In the present disturbance people see the possibility of these coming true. In their alarm they lose track of the tremendous result which this contest may have beside which another world war is insignificant...