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The wide divergence in training methods has not settled the question of superiority: the higher nervous tension of the overtrained athlete seems to wipe out the margin of physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIST OF FELLOWSHIP | 1/31/1925 | See Source »

But for those who disparage American students' innoculation against public excitement, it need only be said that they overestimate the interest of the mob in political controversy. Aside from a few weeks' bombardment by pamphlets, orators and advertising appeals, the average citizen is not aroused by political questions. The quarreling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SOOTHING SPECTRE | 1/24/1925 | See Source »

The early development of the United States was unhampered by the national of Europe, who were too busily engaged in struggles among themselves to molest the rising young country in the west, according to Colonel Kilbourne. By the time they had settled their own difficulties, this country had just emerged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PANAMA CANAL SAFE AGAINST ALL ATTACK | 1/21/1925 | See Source »

The year 1925 will prove the 255th birthday of the Hudson's Bay Co.- the oldest commercial company in the world. This ancient concern was organized in 1670, after Pierre Radisson, French promoter, had persuaded Charles II of England to send a small 50-ton ship, the Nonsuch, across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Oldest | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

Mile. Last week, on the indoor track of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Legs | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

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