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...average man knows nothing about murder as it should be done until he has read of the finesse of the Papuans. Papuan children are schooled in the rigid etiquette of "bumping off" their neighbors and no male Papuan may reach his majority without several notches on his spear-handle. The spirit of this spirited people may be gleaned from the words of one who had dispatched a friend on the banks of a river: "He wanted me to carry him across, but he looked very heavy. Rather than be so rude as to refuse him, I killed...
...Crimson Saturday, was Greenidge's 181 foot 7 1-2 inch javelin throw, which gave him third place and establishes a new College record. The former mark, which Greenidge hung up in the Princeton meet last week was 180 feet 6 inches. Storrs of Yale, hurling the spear only 11 inches short of the 200-foot mark, won the event and established a new intercollegiate record. Eastman, making the best heave of his career with the 16-pound shot, won fourth place in that event with a mark of 45 feet 1-2 inch. Although falling short of the distance...
...collection contains also a number of pipes of cast bronze, examples of the unusual work of this region; chairs, drums, fighting helmets, bronze collars, spear-head money, "memory sticks", and numerous other articles illustrating the customs of the West African tribes. These objects, which will form a part of the African collection at the Peabody Museum, the third largest collection of its kind in the country, are now being classified in the basement of the Museum and cannot be put on public exhibition for some time to come on account of lack of cases to hold them...
...David R. Porter was the Principal speaker at the Auditorium meeting last night, while Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick will take the floor this evening. Tomorrow Mr. Robert E. Spear will address the delegates...
...Yard--Won by Damon, Amherst; second, Brackett, Harvard; third, Spear, Amherst. Time...