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...season opened last week, President Hoover dropped all official business at the White House, went hurrying away to his Rapidan Camp for his first weekend outing since last October. His guests were Secretaries Lament and Wilbur, Attorney General Mitchell. Mrs. Hoover was away in Philadelphia. The Rapidan party was stag...
...House of Commons last week, a bill was introduced to prohibit stag hunting in England. John Alexander Lovat-Fraser, 62-year-old Laborite, representing the Lichfield Division of Staffordshire, a member of the National Council of Maternity and Child Welfare, contended that his bill would end "a practice that subjects the stag to the grossest and most terrible cruelty. . . ." His bill was backed by the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A Conservative M.P. objected to the Lovat-Fraser Bill on the ground that if passed it would set a precedent for bills prohibiting all kinds of hunting...
Since the Norman conquest, stag hunting has been a favorite and, as usually regarded, comparatively harmless amusement of the British nobility. In the reign of Charles II, a 70-mile hunt was held from Swinley to Lord Petre's Seat in Essex; the Duke of York was the only hunter in at the death. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 19 packs of staghounds in England, four in Ireland. The biggest existing British deer park is 4,000 acres at Savernake. The season opens on Aug. 12, ends Oct. 8. There is a short spring season...
...whereabouts of the stag is told to the master by the harbourer. Steady hounds, called "tufters," are then thrown into cover and having found a warrantable deer, bay him until he is forced to an open run which is fun for the mounted huntsmen. The hounds, when they finally run down the tired stag, should hold him at bay rather than bite him to death...
...Review has a definite bearing on some phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony of drink upon drink. The debutante, overshadowed by the impersonal magnitude of her hospitality, loses the spontaneity that might have kept the stage...