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Miss Sears is telling the story of the war waged in the 1670's by the Indian chieftain Metacom, whom the English called King Philip, against the white settlers of the New England States. King Philip was centainly a very striking figure. Possessed of great strength and stature, his prowess in war kept the colonists in a continual state of fear, and the fight he led brought death to several hundred colonists and destruction to a dozen towns...
...prowess in detection the office of Chief Constable was specially created for Frederick Wensley, whose service at Scotland Yard began 47 years ago just before the dreadful days of Jack the Ripper...
...still remember how he used to streak down the field to catch Elmer Oliphant's forward passes; how he scored 27 of 30 points against Notre Dame; how he left the Academy, a high-standing graduate in engineering, with four letters and two sabres for all-around athletic prowess. Athlete Vidal went to the 1919 Inter-Allied games in Paris, played on the winning rugby team. Next year he was at the Olympics in Antwerp. An automobile crash had split a muscle in his throwing arm. Ambidextrous, he hurled the javelin with the other, finished seventh in the Decathlon...
Such was Sloan's prowess that when the late William Collins Whitney in 1900 determined to beat his Wall Street rival, the late James R. Keene, in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay at any cost, he sent to England for Tod Sloan. It cost him the traveling expenses of the jockey and his absurd retinue, plus a reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that...
...consistently been the accepted attitude here that intersectional contests with colleges which are united to Princeton by no common bonds of interest save the determination of their relative athletic prowess have no reasonable justification. And the extension of the football season beyond its normal bounds is in any case unfortunate in its results, both by the increased tension upon the players themselves and in the temporary distortion of values among the members of the student body at large...