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Benito Mussolini: " I was enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing...
...feature of the program, recently announced by E. E. Babb, chairman of the B. A. A. athletic committee, will be the events exclusively set aside for men in the service. These follow: 40-yard dash, 40-yard rescue racer, 600-yard run with full equipment, rope-climbing contest, tug-of-war between teams composed of eight men, and relay races. There will be two special races for both soldiers and civilians in which entrants they show by preliminary trial that they are worthy of competing. One of these, the three-mile run, is scratch, and athletes must show a record...
...American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering are the encouragement of a racer of the goal. After election, his enthusiasm collapses. His spiritual energy goes into class politics, fraternity and club emulation, athletics, every activity which is translatable into terms of winning and losing. In Continental universities this energy would rather go into a turbulence for causes and ideas, a militant radicalism...
...quite evident why the Lampoon has lately taken the selfish stand of debarring an undergraduate who has made the Advocate or CRIMSON from its own editorial staff. The three papers are as much alike as a hobby-horse, a Boston cab-horse, and a full-blooded racer. They are all means of conveyance...
...RACING MEN.- Special Offer on the famous World wheel. I can take a few more orders on them. Come in at once and get the terms to the team. First come first served. The Racer is good for track and road. W. J. Newman, agent for the World, 1288 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge...