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With their ponies still soft and unconditioned after over a months idleness the University riders will be severely handicapped against the Boston team which has had some practice. Ten ponies were taken from Soldiers Field to the Armory yesterday afternoon where stalls have been arranged for with the Army officials for the remainder of the season. The mounts were again given on easy workout immediately afterwards by members of the team and found to be in poor condition for a strenuous contest...
...nearly won a decision over Dixon last winter, but the Crimson leader has been playing in top form during the past week. Another former University star will be in the athletic association's lineup today. E. N. Upjohn '25, will oppose Lenhart in the third match. Lenhart plays a soft game and makes a large number of gets, that may make trouble for Upjohn...
...college men have been poisoned against the Bible by those very people who most believed in it. They have held it up as a good holy book filled with deep moral lessons. They have advertised it in a way certain to fill any normal boy with the bitterest loathing. Soft handed ministers have spoken of it in hushed, strained voices, Sunday school teachers have branded its messages among the unpleasant memories in the minds of their young disciples. Its simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched the moving sun patches...
...first demure applause rippled over the throng; then as the Pope neared in a soft sway the faithful fell to their knees, crossed themselves, received the Pope's blessing as he passed, his left hand holding a lighted candle, his right, with two fingers extended, gesturing over the heads of his children. So passed the glorious personage gowned in white and gold,* crowned with the jeweled triple tiara, with the Papal pectoral cross hung from his neck...
...hand the red hat to Cardinal Dubois; received from Cardinal Dubois the red hat (which the Papal ablegate, Roman Prince Monte Leon, had rushed with the Papal decree of creation from Rome); knelt on a coronation cushion the République has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince of the Church; accepted felicitations. The band blared to perfection the Marseillaise...