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...itself merely to news, and closes its columns to thoughtful innovation is on the way to becoming a gazette of events--an admirable thing in itself but hardly as interesting as a more inclusive sheet. Undoubtedly the first function of a newspaper is, as the Yale paper says, "to purvey news." An almanac, however, performs the same duties but almanacs seldom hold the reader tense. "No more reforms" is a neat phrase; but heaven help an unformed formed Yale...
...Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed his sup porters that the round was over and that it behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil...