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Pretoria's old Raadsaal (council hall) was windy with laughter last week. Ninety-nine Nationalist members of Parliament assembled there, not as legislators but as so-called judges. They thought it was a great joke, and kept calling to each other: "Goeie more, Meneer Regt;" (Good morning, Mister Judge). But for South Africa's second-and third-class citizens, the joke was a grim...
There are other less illustrious but equally interesting personages in Old Granary: Elisha Brown, for instance, who in 1769 barricaded himself in his home and for 17 days successfully "oppofed a whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...
...quotation borrowed) is the fact that our company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company stalwarts as "Buck" Ayers, B.A. (?) Johnson, "Rolie Polie" Foley, Regt, Comdr, Grenaker, and numerous other eupidites...
...Yale 14 6--Harvard 0 10--Brown 3 38--Boston U. 0 27--Cornell 14 225 31 ANNAPOLIS 14--Wm. & Mary 7 3--Marquette 21 14--Princeton 17 7--W. Va. Wes. 10 0--Penn State 6 53--Vermont 0 0--Bucknell 6 91 67 FORDHAM 21--7th Regt. 0 34--Manhattan 0 0--Boston Col. 28 26--St. Stephen's 0 0--Holy Cross 13 27--N. Y. Univ. 0 31--C. C. N. Y. Catholic U. 0 139 47 CORNELL 56--St. Bonaven 0 27--Niagara 0 7--Williams 14 0--Rutgers 10 14--Columbia...
...tryouts for the University relay team which is to meet Yale at the New York Athletic Club games in the 22nd Regt. Armory, New York, Saturday evening in a one-mile race, the following men were chosen: A. W. Douglass '21, W. H. Goodwin '20, J. A. McCarthy, '22, and Captain D. F. O'Connell '21. E. T. Doherty '21 was chosen as substitute. The team will leave the South Station at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, arriving at New York at 3.10 that afternoon. The men will have a few hours' rest in the hotel before going...