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...eleventh hour, another candidate appeared in the person of Lord Cave, the Lord High Chancellor of the Realm. Still, this did not appear to diminish Lord Oxford's chances of election. By comparison he dwarfed Lord Cave intellectually and from the point of view of achievement. But Oxford is traditionally the home of lost causes and the treasury of Conservative thought. It was, therefore, not surprising that Lord Cave, a Conservative, was preferred as Chancellor to Lord Oxford, a Liberal, by 987 votes...
...Justin Russell of Chicago jumped 6 ft. 6 in. over a bar, though there was nothing on the other side but sand. Northrup, teammate of Hubbard, won the javelin throw. When points were counted, it was found that Michigan had won the championship, with Wisconsin second, Ohio State third. Comparison of this meet with the Intercollegiates held in the East two weeks ago (TIME, June 8) shows that, in 8 of the 15 events which appeared on both programs, the Conference athletes performed best...
...First of all, there is the League itself. The Assembly, in which our French friend makes the tour of the world within twice sixty minutes (in comparison with the famous sixty days of Jules Verne), is exceptionally interesting, but after all it is only a small part of the League. Heavier work is done in the Council meetings, and the heaviest work of all in the sessions of the special committees. In addition the student of the League will find much to keep him occupied in investigating the activities of the Secretariat, in nosing about its immense library on international...
...editorials in the adjoining column invite comparison. No serious minded Harvard undergraduate can read them without asking his introspective self, "Am I an athlete--or an aesthete?" When he has decided whether the shelf-mark or the shoulder-pad is his birthright, he will undoubtedly realize that for a long time he has been very unfair to his antagonists, the shoulder-pads or the shelf-marks--whichever it is that...
With the Yale meet only a week distant, the Crimson appears to have only a fighting chance to win. In a comparison of strength from previous performances Yale has a margin of from fifteen to twenty points over Harvard. With all the Crimson athletes in good condition, the meet would be closer. Fletcher, the best Hurdler, will not be able to compete again because of illness...