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...time these charges were made, Prince Babu Stirbey quietly left Rumania until the incident blew over. Politically Prince Babu is hand in glove with onetime Premier Jon Bratiano whose powerful dynasty has an almost feudal hold on large areas of Rumanian peasant land, as well as upon the principal industrial banks...
Read "Half-way Through the Looking-Glass", in which Mr. Marfield throws down his glove to Mr. Chesterton--and runs: and "The Transfiguration of Mr. Weatherhead", which is Mr. Page's chronicle of a French instructor who was neither circumflex nor acute. The remarkable effusion of Anthony Featherstone may be of less interest to some than it is to your reviewer, who knows poor Tony well at college, and who respectfully begs to differ with Mr. Kay's comments on "He Who Believeth". The book-reviews are pleasantly undignified, and Mr. Howe calls Elmer Gantry a nasty old thing...
...missed grounder in the second stanza by R. C. Sullivan '28, who shared the shortstop's duties with J. P. Chase '28, were the only mistakes in an exhibition of clean, flawless fielding. Sullivan allowed Jenkins's hard grounder to skid through his legs, but as his glove did not touch the horsehide, he was not charged with an error...
...benevolence of the Rockefellers (Rockefeller Foundation) and of those contributors to the $1,000,000 endowment of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (TIME, Feb. 14 et ante). Others have given put of the ache of personal tragedies. The wife of Lucius N. Littauer, "Gloversville, N. Y., glove maker, died of pneumonia; he gave $5,000 for pneumonia research (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Professor Stephen Leacock's wife died of cancer; he vowed to give over his small wealth and his great talents to finding ways of preventing this disease (TIME...
Harvard has been slow to encourage and aid enthusiasts of glove and canvas despite a steadily increasing interest shown during the past few years. The chief objection to boxing as a form of intercollegiate activity has emanated from the stigma attached to the professional "fight" game, and the fear that unfriendly feeling among rival spectators would be aroused and fostered by the sight of men "fighting" in the ring. Opposition to the sport on the grounds that it lends itself to instances of brutality and unnecessary injury to the participants is to be considered less seriously. These evils...