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...nine days' talk of London is Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, American sportsman. Sanford's 13-year-old gelding, Sergeant Murphy (by General Symons, out of Rose Craft, English bred) won the Grand National, the steeplechase classic of the world, over the Aintree Course, near Liverpool, the most hazardous four miles known to the racing turf. It was the first time (and this was the 83rd Grand National) that an American horse has won. Out of 28 starters only seven horses finished. Sergeant Murphy went to the pole at odds of 100 to 6 against and finished three lengths beyond the field...
...Significance. The classic story of Rosebery illustrates the place of the Grand National in British thought. In 1868, when the young lord was expelled from Oxford for keeping a racing stud, he proclaimed to his young friends three ambitions: to marry the richest woman in England; to be Prime Minister: to win the Grand National. He married Hannah, only daughter of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild. He became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister in 1894. He won the Derby three times. He is alive today (one year younger than Chauncey Depew) with one chief regret: no horse of his ever...
...TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.-This classic of blue grass feuds has made the jump to the screen with the blue of its grass and the scarlet of its feuds unimpaired. There are thrilling moments while the feudists grip their revolvers in one hand, their moonshine jugs in the other, their rifles between their teeth...
...Vagabonding in Classic Lands" will be the subject of a lecture to be given at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum by Professor W. B. McDaniel '93, of the University of Pennsylvania. The lecture, which will be illustrated by stereopticons, is under the auspices of the Division of Fine Arts and the Boston Society of the Archaeological institute of America...
Already Egypt is influencing fashions and thought today as the classic ideal permeated western civilization in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Egyptian exhibits have become the center of interest for those who have suddenly begun to throng the museums. The latest styles of dress, as the unfailing barometer of interest, are modeled upon Egyptian patterns. Scandal and murder have been driven from the front pages of the newspapers by the spell of Egyptology. Its influence on literature of a more lasting sort depends on the papyri yet hidden in the tomb; more details about the captivity of Israel...