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...furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government appointed...
...best matches of the evening J. F. Solano '30, in the 158-pound class, defeated Spellman of Brown, New England champion last year, who has been defeated only once by Miller of Yale. T. D. Howe '28, scored Harvard's only fall, when he threw Currit of Tufts at the end of five minutes. With one point per fall scored in the preliminaries. Tufts stands 4, Harvard and Brown each...
...After they had been up a while, the instructor unhooked his control stick, showed it to the student, and threw it overboard with a great flourish and a malicious grin...
Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...
...University matches, which also provided some surprises. One of these came in the 158-pound class, when J. F. Solano '30 gave Captain Miller of Yale his second defeat in three seasons of wrestling. The other upset was provided in the 135-pound class when Sargent of Yale threw Joseph Lifrak '29, New England intercollegiate champion...