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...Seventh Ave., posted a bet of $50,000 that he could lick any business man of his age or over. H. A. Hallenbeck, Manhattan publisher, accepted the challenge, deposited his check for the amount. "Kid" Yates let his challenge stand. All over the U. S., other business men, staunch fisticuffers of 47 or more, irritated, began to look to their biceps, their check books...
...many months, the question of withdrawing the French Embassy to the Vatican has been one of the greatest issues on the horizon for French domestic politics. Opposition came from a staunch conservative section of Catholics, but nowhere was feeling so hostile as in the two long-lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Nor was this all. In France, the Church is completely and utterly divorced from politics and education. Not so in Alsace and Lorraine (TIME. Sept. 8). It was only perfectly natural that the Government at Paris should wish the two Provinces to be governed by the same laws...
Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour...
...handful of students remaining in Lawrence for the vacation paraded the streets as a protest against the eviction of their Chancellor, indignantly repudiated the charge of aloofness, declaring themselves to be the best judges. Many irate Republicans wrote letters of protest to the Administration; many a staunch Democrat backed the Governor against his agitated enemies. It was, however, bruited about that the new Governor, Ben S. Paulen, Republican to the core, would reinstate the Chancellor. Public opinion became calmer...
Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend...