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...Manila, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, contested in track sports. Filipinos, nimble as brown beetles, led; the disgruntled Japanese strove to retrieve the honor of their country. Their coach, one Okabe, held consultation with his trustees, made whispered suggestions. Curious sleights began, to make the yellow athletes perilous. They were warned. Noto, a Japanese runner, fouled a Filipino in the 400- metre event, was ruled off the field. Forthwith, his fellow yellow ones withdrew from the meet, refused to return. Said F. H. Brown, Y. M. C A. Director of Physical Education in Japan: "On behalf of the Japanese delegation, I want...
...surprising degree of opposition developed; and a poll of the Senate indicated that, if Mr. Warren's nomination came up, it might be rejected by a small margin. That being the case, his friends reversed their tactics and strove to keep his nomination from being reported by the committee in order to avoid defeat on the floor. If their policy is successful, Mr. Warren's nomination will not come up until the new Senate assembles on March 4. But even then, with a larger Republican majority, it is not certain that it will be approved...
Baker, discussed changes, strove to foresee what further excursions, alarms, awaited their University. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School since 1916, had been elected President of the University of Wisconsin, promised a salary of from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. He, after a conference with Miss Zona Gale, playwright member of a special Wisconsin committee, accepted the post. It is expected that he will remove to Wisconsin when President R. A. Birge, after over 50 years of service in that University, retires at the end of this year...
...Marie Leschetizky, final wife of the late Theodor Leschetizky, famed Viennese music teacher,* about to make her Manhattan debut. After due trouble with her chair, she addressed herself to a highly uneventful performance of a Bach Sicilienne. Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy followed; in all of whose works Mme. Leschetizky strove courageously to support the improbable theory that the Kingdom of Heaven can be taken by storm...
Last week on a covered court in Paris, two other young men strove. They too were not Tilden and Johnston. They were René LaCoste and Jean Borotra. René had no trouble in covering himself with la glorie. He beat Jean, the French Davis Cup captain, 114 points to 88 (8-6, 6-0, 6-3) and captured the Christmas Cup. Then, said René: "With another visit to the United States, I may do better...