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...Illinois bar admitted him in 1854 and soon the juries were his almost before he addressed them. He organized his own cavalry troop in 1861 but led it into Confederate captivity in 1862. His political fame followed his election as Attorney General of Illinois in 1867. His oratorical prowess became nationally known when he arose to nominate James G. Blaine at the Republican presidential convention of 1876. Thereafter his career became a succession of orations on politics and Tom Paine's brand of godlessness-a succession of vermilion episodes, epigrams, epistles...
...sign a pledge that he would not oppose or criticize the Stalin majority group. Last week this pledge seemed less than "a scrap of paper" as M. Trotzky stood up before the Comintern* and thundered opposition to Josef Stalin with all the moving fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy the Communist program of world revolution. Amid the stress of last week, the Comintern dared...
...clock tomorrow to engage the University of Pennsylvania nine at Philadelphia on Saturday. In the number of diamond crusaders will be included C. G. T. Lundell '27, who was taken onto the first squad last week. In a practice tilt at Soldiers Field yesterday Lundell showed considerable prowess with the bat. He is listed as an out-fielder...
That Coach Mitchell has considerable respect for the prowess of the southerners with the bat is shown in his announcement that Barbee, Harvard's first string twirler who has lost but one game in ten starts, will be on the mound for the University team this afternoon. Barbee went through fourteen long albeit successful innings against Holy Cross Saturday and would, therefore, not ordinarily be expected to hurl today...
...romantic, if cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power...