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...Black Canon road, 20 miles out of Phoenix, Ariz., a crowd of homesteaders last week executed an orderly lynching. When the grisly ceremony was over, Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work had been hanged for the second time in two weeks-in effigy. Again as at Scotts Bluff, Neb. (TIME, June 7, FARMERS), dissatisfaction with the Government's reclamation policy was the cause of the atrocity...
...remained for Brown University to propound the modern application of that ancient pedagogical canon, mens sana in corpore sano. Last week, President W. H. P. Faunce announced that hereafter his undergraduates will be examined not only as to their lungs, hearts, livers and eyes by physicians, but also as to their worries, doubts, despairs, loves and hates by trained psychologists. There will be the physical examination at the gymnasium, the psychological examination in the laboratory...
...Francisco Laus rode with Mr. Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...
...returned to his native Lincolnshire, life having apparently robbed him of the purpose toward which his 30 years of youth had devoutly and painstakingly moved. These years of preparation had culminated in the degrees of M. A., B. Chir., M. D. and in marriage to the daughter of a canon. What to do at 30? It was the year...
...moments later the aristocratic huntsmen were surrounded by a troop of raggety men who vowed that they were huntsmen top. Two of their number sported their masters' cast off hunting costumes. One of them rode an old broken down mare. All of them had flagrantly violated the first canon of fox-hunting good form by equipping themselves with rifles! To a true British aristocrat any other method of killing a fox than allowing the dogs to tear all of it but the "brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that...