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ITHACA, N. Y., May 2.--In a weird game in which seven extra-base hits and 11 errors were registered, Cornell sprang a surprise and defeated Lafayette here today 7 to 3. Gazella of Lafayette starred at bat making three hits in four trips to the plate. Fox and Hulnick of Cornell featured in the field...
...pianos. There were at his disposal very limited financial means and but a few simple tools, but there were also at his disposal pluck, resourcefulness, persistency, love of his work and inventive genius. With these he wrought a great and lasting American achievement. His was the brain from which sprang the conception, his was the hand that laid the foundation of the splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout the world." So said Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera House Board of Directors, in announcing that Vice President Coolidge had accepted the chairmanship...
...Arnold J. Toynbee, in his admirably written book, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, says of him: "He proved by a personal demonstration that a Turk can be his own master in Anatolia without having to wait for a better world, and under his inspiration the National Movement sprang to life." Without doubt Mustapha Kemal Pasha is one of the great figures in contemporary history. He stands now against the unseen forces of Western civilization, determined to hold what Turkey...
With one favorite exception, the statutes which are painfully familiar to the greatest number of men are the traffic regulations. Last spring, when the son of a well-known automobile manufacturer was sentenced to five days in jail for fast driving, the country rang with excitement. Orange County, California, sprang into prominence by giving "a day on the rock pile" to all second offenders. Even the famous Ralph De Palma got "ten days", for shooting away from a policemen whose motorcycle was "doing...
...discussion sprang from the suicide of Vivian Tanner, a "Blue Coat" boy of Christ's Hospital, who had been "ragged" for poor playing in a football game. The headmaster of Christ's Hospital was reported to have said that "If a boy acts badly as a linesman a mild kick is not an excessive punishment." The result was a storm of indignant protests. Then Canon Lyttleton of Eton published his opinions including the sentences quoted above. Followed more indignation. Interviews with headmasters, teachers and laymen representing every shade of opinion began to appear in the press. And apparently...