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...State of Delaware there are two clans which are really potent. They fight occasionally, but usually they divide the political machinery of the state between them with a casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been...
Three University soccer teams will play this afternoon. The University squad meets Springfield College in what promises to be a much more difficult encounter than that of last week. The Seconds and the Freshmen will open their seasons, the former against the Clan Lindsay team, and the latter against Tabor Academy...
...games will be played on Soldiers Field. The Freshmen will be the first to play at 1.30 o'clock; the Seconds will meet Clan Lindsay an hour later, and the University game will commence at 4 o'clock...
...captain of the second University team. Beals has played fullback on the seconds for two seasons, and before transferring to Harvard became acquainted with the game at the University of New Hampshire. The Seconds will also have their first encounter of the season on Saturday, when they meet the Clan Lindsay team...
...Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...