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...class, has collected a group of 1927 stars in other sports to engage the prospective lawyers in a championship tilt this Saturday afternoon. Although the men listed to play on this team are athletes of proven ability in other branches of athletics, their basketball ability is an unknown quantity...
...which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...
When the rivers thaw the two parties will start downstream on the unknown courses of two of the large rivers (one of them the Colville), which flow into the Polar Sea. He may bring back good tidings of oil. He will surely return with a record of adventure...
Said The Times, London, apropos of the Calif's ouster: "Of all vast changes wrought by the war, the downfall of Habsburgs, Romanoffs and Hohenzollerns, the resurrection of ancient States and the rise of States unknown before, the evolution of novel forms of government and the emergence of new ideas and new feeling among mankind, no single change is more striking to the imagination than is this; and few, perhaps, may prove so important in their ultimate results...
InQuiries at the Union proved that this custom had been entirely unknown in recent years nor could traces of it be found elsewhere in the University...