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...Athletic Association has announced the football schedule for next year. With two exceptions, the same elevens that faced the Crimson this year are again listed on the 1926 program. The newcomers next year will be Geneva and Tufts, and they will fill the vacancies left on the schedule by the non-appearance of the Rensselaer and Middlebury teams, this fall's opening rivals...
Holy Cross will be encountered a week earlier this year, and will follow Geneva on the list. William and Mary will be the third eleven to appear on Soldier's Field, and will be followed by Dartmouth, Tufts, Princeton, Brown, and Yale in that order...
...great Mount Cenis tunnel, he comes upon a land where peace seems a foregone conclusion from the sheer stillness of its lakes and the immobile vastness of its mountains. There the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...surface, only the top of its periscope showing. With a splintering crash, periscope met plane. The aviators somersaulted unhurt into the sea. The submarine commander, quickly bringing his craft to the surface, joined his crew in smiling broadly. The accident is thought to be unique. A tourist arriving at Geneva from Italy, last week, is reported to have brought with him a Fascist pamphlet filled catechismwise with questions and answers. An example...