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Died. Bobby Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
...Harvard, analogous to the English colleges, will restore to the undergraduates all the opportunities for social contacts, foundations of lasting friendships, and mutual intellectual stimulus which the men of my generation enjoyed in full measure and which the smaller colleges offer today. Even in the larger English colleges, like Christchurch at Oxford, and Trinity at Cambridge, mutual acquaintance extends over the whole undergraduate body, and each student can claim a relatively large number of his fellows as intimate friends...
...Throughout the Commonwealth the strike spread rapidly. Australia was affected at once. There Tom Walsh led the insurgent seamen. Last week 33 ships were tied up at Melbourne. Twelve liners were unable to leave Durban (South Africa). Newcastle (New South Wales), Cape Town, Rangoon (Burma), Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch (New Zealand) were all affected...
...Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland, N. Z., gobs were dined, danced, feted. "The smartness of the sailors' uniform, the precision of their movements and their excellent marching won much applause...
...members of the team are: Edward Marjoribanks, the captain, M. C. Hollis, and Kenneth Lindsay. Marjoribanks was educated at Eton, rowed four years in the Christchurch boat, and is now President of the Oxford Union Debating Society. M. C. Hollis is a student of Balliol College and Secretary-elect of the Oxford Union while Lindsay is a member of several athletic teams at Oxford as well as one of the Union's best debaters...