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...Arthur Lumley, 78, oldtime (1878-88) editor of The Police Gazette and manager of prizefighters (Sullivan, Fitzsimmons the original Jack Dempsey), fell down the steps in a Brooklyn subway station suffered a broken arm, many a bruise. In bed he reminisced. Of the late great Editor Charles Anderson Dana: "And who do you think he brought along with him? Roscoe Conklin, the Senator. They sat up all night at that cockfight." Of John L. Sullivan: "I made John L. sports editor of my sheet [The Illustrated News']. It was handy . . . whenever I wanted to roast anyone I would...
...Maurice Kurnitsky '30, Lord Brooke of Brookehill; David White '29, Lord Cudworth; L. M. Shapiro '29. Charles Viscount Deeford; L. H. Weinstein 21, the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, M. P.; N. J. Winer '31, Mr. Hugh Meyers; P. W. Winer 31, Sir Michael Probert, Bart.; Arnold Kowarsky '31, Mr. Lumley Foljambe; William Taub '32, Bascot, Disraeli's Butler; A. I. M. Abramson '29, Flooks, a rural postman...
...Baseball Nine Books," as a series of trenchant treatises on scholastic morality. The scrivener to whom the beginnings of the series are ascribed is Christy Mathewson. His titles read: Pitcher Pollock, Catcher Craig, First Base Faulkner, Second Base Sloan. The array leads one to anticipate Shortstop Sutphen, Left Fielder Lumley, Center Fielder Cathcart and Right Fielder Rabinowitz...
Professor Lake is a graduate of St. Paul's Scool, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford, and is the author of many treatises on religion. He was winner of the Arnold essay prize in 1902 and curate of Lumley, Durham, in 1895, and of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1897 to 1904. He was also a cataloguer of Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in 1903-04. Professor Lake went to Leyden University...
...Ames. The writer treats of "Express Assumpsit" and examines the various theories which have been formed to explain the origin of the doctrine of "consideration" as a part of the law of contracts. The work is very carefully done. Mr. Schofield contributes a paper on the "Principle in Lumley vs. Gye and its Application." The article is a critical examination in its several aspects of the point decided in this noted English case, namely that the mere existence of a contract imposes upon all who know of its existence, a duty to forbear form, doing any act maliciously...