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...reads a tablet on the vine-covered wall of Rugby School close, England. It was not until 1869 that the first intercollegiate football game in the world was played at New Brunswick, N. J. between Princeton and Rutgers. Last week Rutgers, taking part in the celebration of New Brunswick's 250th birthday, re-enacted that game. Chief Justice William Stryker Gummere of the New Jersey Supreme Court, captain of the Princeton team of 1869, is still alive, but his part in the pageant was taken by an understudy. Like the footballers of the old days, several of the pageant...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...besides, I'll instruct you, like me, to entwine the myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine...
...Manhattan, Evardo Banks, Negro, earned a living by suing transportation companies for pretended injuries to his chronically swollen left knee. Apprehended, accused of gaining $8,000 from 16 victims, he stated: "I am like a little fox who eats the tender buds of promise and destroys the beautiful vine of success...
...Bukharin is a vine that must always cling somewhere, must be always upheld and maintained by someone sturdier than himself. . . . After Lenin's death, Bukharin became Stalin's medium. . . . I hear from friends that he is passing through a new crisis now, and that new fluids, unknown to me, are penetrating him." The "fluids" were diagnosed as those of a "Right Heresy" in Moscow last week by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. It appeared that Comrade Bukharin had dared to say that some of Dictator Stalin's policies are too radical much as Comrade Trotsky dared...