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...much-abused phrase, "in the interests of science", which prompts that last highball and the extra pressure on the accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached...
...York's a pretty fine city though, don't you think?" The question was put with intent to lead...
Beyond doubt, then, this experiment is being entered upon seriously. It is, moreover, going to get the fairest possible trial, for a tradition of victory and a small college especially intent on this sport are helpful auguries to prove the contentions of the give-the-game-back-to-the-boys columnists. This one opening, however--and its success is still far from certain--can mean little in such a campaign. Ten thousand alumni basketball teams assemble annually to battle ten thousand school teams. Hockey and football, more dependent on carefully pre-outlined systems of attack and defence; track and crew...
...Hills lease from which it expected to make $100,000,000. Two years ago a jury tried Fall and Doheny on practically the same evidence for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. That jury acquitted them. This time the jury had to judge, independent of Doheny, Fall's intent in receiving this cash. It found his intent criminal, the cash a bribe...
Justice Hitz made a strong charge to the jury, instructing them to seek and weigh Fall's intent, warning them against the sentimental appeals of the defense. Lawyer Hogan and Oilman Doheny were infuriated by this charge, vehemently contending that it had robbed Defendant Fall of a fair trial by jury. The exceptions to the Hitz charge and the introduction of the Sinclair evidence formed the basis for a demand for a new trial or, if denied, for appeal...