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General Dietrix's account of the murders agrees in the main with other reports, but sheds new light upon the unlovely incident. Hitherto no one has been able to explain the discovery of the religious icons which were found some distance away from the pyre upon which the bodies were burnt, and the failure of various investigators to find any teeth among the ashes. The icons, which were worn around the necks of the Imperial Family, were evidently displaced by the act of decapitation and the missing teeth were carried away with the heads. That the heads...
Died: Musammat Rukka, 25, widow of Ganga Din Ahir, 28, Italy, India. She committed suttee on the funeral pyre of her husband...
Professor F. J. A. Pyre of Wisconsin State University, himself an old football player, sounded a serious note of warning that college sport is approaching that same dangerous position which resulted in nation-wide curtailment fifteen years ago. He named overintensification in sport and the dangers of contamination from professional methods as likely to leave the college with mammoth stadiums, built in the present period of enthusiasm, but desolate a few years hence, if college faculties decide that the primary purpose of colleges is education and not athletics. He pointed out that the present craze for athletics, if not guarded...
...crowd clamored at his tortured shrieks, rejoicing around the pyre till that which was once a man had become but bones and ashes. There were women in that mob in great numbers, singing at the gala day. Women! Those chivalric and holy women of the South to keep whom pure the last Southern gentleman would shed his romantic blood. The flower of chivalry! Did womanly pity, did womanly sorrow, which is the greatest compassion our race may know, move their hearts then? Did they weep at this bestiality...
...custom of cremating Analytical Geometry has been revived by the sophomores at Amherst. The whole class, attired in fantastic costumes, assembled last Monday evening, and held a trial at which the Geometry was pronounced guilty. It was then seized, carried to the class tree, and placed upon a funeral pyre, and the sophomores joined in a war dance while the book was being cremated. Nearly ninetenths of the class were conditioned at the examination...