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...years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years. As a schoolboy he won the same title in archery, fencing, running, rowing, tennis and baseball. After graduating "summa cum laude" with a law degree from the Imperial University at Tokyo (1892), he entered the Imperial Department of Finance as one of its lowest clerks, quickly vaulted to the complete superintendence of the Tax Bureau and was sent to Paris, London and Manhattan after the Russo-Japanese...
...harmonization of the tutorial and lecture systems. Last year, members of the class of 1925, who were permitted under the same restrictions to work at the rate of three courses during their senior year, benefited greatly by the privilege. Of the 17 men selected, two got degrees summa cum laude, eight magna cum laude, and six cum laude. Only one failed to gain distinction...
...average New York man. He found out in one year what it takes most of them four to discover. By a mere technicality--a little matter of three years' residence--Mr. Vandercook failed to get his degree, when, by rights, his unusual acuteness really entitled him to a summa. No wonder he left in disgust for the jungles of South America...
...Burt Green Wilder, born in 1841, was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard) in 1862 in anatomia summa cum laude. He served in the Civil War as surgeon of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (colored). Afterward he became curator of herpetology for the Boston Society of Natural History, professor of neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell. He was a member of the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards...
...injuries received in play or colds: Wright-stone, Philadelphia Phillies, broken finger; Maranville, Chicago Cubs, broken leg; Grigsby, Chicago Cubs, broken collar bone; Archdeacon, Chicago White Sox, tonsilitis; Eddie Moore, Pittsburgh Pirates, sprained shoulder; Ed Smith, Boston Braves, hit in eye with batted ball; Hauser, Philadelphia Athletics, broken kneecap; Summa and Knode, Cleveland Indians, broken noses; Lindstrom, Frisch, N. Y. Giants, wrenched ankles; Groh, N. Y. Giants, cold...