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...following 25 questions are concerned with news printed in this issue of TIME. Can yon answer them...
Swatting their visitors about the head, neck and shoulders, wobbling their netted sticks in that peculiar fashion invented by the Indians but copied to perfection by clever palefaces, flirting the hard little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...
...three gentlemen struggling to become the Republican nominee for the Presidency. There were Frank O. Lowden and Leonard Wood locked in a deadly political embrace, and there was Hiram Johnson of California harrying the flanks of both with his delegations gathered through the primaries of states here and yon. On the outskirts to be sure were the friends of Senator Harding of Ohio, preparing a little coup...
...full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were batteries of cameras, reporters, learned counsel, and a small fraction of the "public." Promptly at 10 a. m. a grizzled sergeant rose and called "Stand up!" The crowd rose and filed the Court of twelve generals led by Major General Summerall...
...University by President James Rowland Angell: "On entering a college group, one is instantly subjected to social pressure toward conformity. . . .The experience may be distressing, but if you are worthy to be Yale men it will be wholesome. If you have no backbone, you will be carried hither and yon by every kind of fugitive opinion...