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...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...
...Wolverines, undefeated and having only one tie to mar their record, and leading the Western Conference race along with Northwestern come riding on the crest of a wave. A stirring 14 to 12 victory over the Crimson last year gives them confidence and smashing triumphs over Purdue, Ohio State, and Illinois this year have shown that they possess tremendous power...
Nine colleges are on the University schedule which includes five games away and is as follows: Jan. 10, Norwich; Jan. 17, Springfield; Jan. 21, Brown at Providence; Feb. 14, Columbia; Feb. 17, M.I.T. at M.I.T.; Feb. 21, Army at West Point; Feb. 25, Tufts at Medford; Feb. 28, Pennsylvania; Mar. 7, Yale at New Haven...
...Freshman schedule will be the following: Jan. 10, Interdormitory meet; Jan. 21, Brown freshmen at Providence; Feb. 7, Taft at Watertown; Feb. 17, M.I.T.; freshmen at M.I.T.; Feb. 25, Tufts freshmen at Medford; Feb. 28, Andover; Mar. 7, Yale at New Haven...
When he delivered himself of a sage maiden address before the Oxford Union last spring (TIME, Mar. 3), young Mr. Churchill?named for his grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95), fiery Conservative orator?was conscious that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British...