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...Winner. Black Gold, so-called Pride of the West, won by a scant half-length. The three horses who were given the other prize-money places were also Western horses. Thus the East found itself totally eclipsed. The time of the mile and a quarter race (2 min. 5 1/5 sec.) was 1 4/5 seconds slower than the record made in 1914 by Old Rosebud. The track was fast; the day, fair...
...Yale. Miller scored four points for the Freshmen on the field, taking second place in the shotput and third in the javelin, while Captain Lundell, in addition to winning 10 points on the track, took third place in the shotput and added another point of his team's scant total...
...will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well as train actors and expert stage managers it may well become with its superior equipment, the storm center of the new idealistic movement. In any case, its success will encourage those optimists who hope for improved facilities...
...comparison with the extraordinarily careful preparations made by the U. S. the English expedition appears typically casual. They have one plane instead of four, only one or two officers sent ahead, scant Government help for what is purely a private venture. Still MacLaren is a very experienced pilot, his plans have been laid carefully in advance, he has the advantage of a plane which, with its retractible landing wheels, is just as much at home on water as on land...
Professor Mcllwaine makes out a very good case, but one that is in many, places open to attack. His Irish analogy, for example, is somewhat strained in places. He passes over with scant attention the imperiousness and contempt of George III for the colonies. He does not emphasize the fact that the colonial struggle was one phase of the general struggle throughout the British possessions for representative self-government, was, as Professor Hart puts it (Formation of the Union) "a part of the struggle between popular and autocratic principles of government in England". In short, Professor Mcllwaine's interpretation...