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...international conference in Louvain, 200 Dutch Nationalists staged an anti-Belgium riot. They threw stones, hissed, unfolded Orange banners, cried "Long Live Wilhelmina! Down with Belgium...
...work of Greenidge and Carpenter, the remaining two Harvard athletes to place on Saturday. Carpenter took third place in the discus with a throw of 133 feet 9 1-2 inches, nine feet better than his best heave a year ago. And Greenidge, placing fourth in the javelin, threw his spear 176 feet 5 1-8 inches, a remarkable improvement over his distance last year,--166 feet 10 inches...
...speech threw a bombshell into that convention" said Mr. Geer to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "and for a time my project was the target for incessant criticism from a few of the delegates who were especially partisan. I suggested the limiting of High School competition to school competition to schools within a reasonable exodus of each other that is athletically related groups, and the adoption of working principles to guide schools in their athletic relations--principles similar to those that have guided the colleges that are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
Evidence at the trial brought out the fact that Thaw was in 1918 on intimate terms with rabbits at the Pennsylvania Hospital for Nervous Diseases, whence he was removed during the War. He kissed them often and called them "tweedledums" and "tootsies," then threw them 40 feet into the snow, exclaiming: "It didn't hurt them!" Despite this evidence alienists were of the opinion that Thaw is sane...
...other feats, something not wholly political. Whether consciously in order to smooth the way of affairs of state, or unconsciously as a sign of the times, the Carleton Club of London, which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy doorway; and as a consequence marquises and masons hobnobbed...