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...fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
...faux pas and played right into the hands of the Army's rival, the Naval Academy. These two institutions severed athletic relationships several years ago on an issue in which men like Cagle were the points of controversy. College athletes, after having played three years at their respective universities, went to either of the academies and played there for four more years Harry Wilson, who had previously played at Pennsylvania, had just completed four years at West Point, and Sloane. Drake star, was enrolled at Annapolis when the two academics began discussing eligibility rules. The Navy, of its own free...
...only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott's party all died of cold and exhaustion on their way back to their base. Author Cherry-Garrard, member of Scott's main expedition,* gives a complete account of the three-year expedition (1910-1913). Says he: "There is already considerable literature about the expedition, but no connected account of it as a whole...
...permitted to resign as both general manager of Grain Corp. and vice president of Stabilization Corp. The customary excuse was used: "The pressure of other affairs which will require his undivided attention." But there were few wheat men in Chicago who did not believe that Mr. Kellogg, despite his three-year contract, had been eased out because of the botch he had made of U. S. wheat trading, the ill will he had engendered among growers and dealers alike...
...year 6% notes for $55,000,000. These two transactions, totalling $103,000,000, would leave the Fox Companies well supplied with, funds. Furthermore the bankers (who included both the Fox and the anti-Fox factions in the late war) were to receive only 300,000 shares of three-year warrants of Film A at $35 a share-a banking profit notably smaller than the commissions formerly proposed by either Halsey, Stuart or the Bancamerica-Blair. Dillon, Read & Co., Lehman Bros, syndicate...