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...efforts of the Central Board of Officials to uphold the fearless administration of the rules and the maintenance of the highest standards of sportsmanship are heartily endorse...
Evolutionists will occupy a defensive position tonight, when the Reverend John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of New York city, will uphold Fundamentalism and one literal interpretation of the biblical story of the Creation of Man, in his lecture on "The Battle Over the Bible," which he will deliver at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House. Mr. R. H. Schacht of Brookline will preside. The meeting is open only to members of the University...
...mentally, a capable man and a practical man. The English often fear brilliance and almost always are suspicious of it. In Lord Cave, Oxford has found a man who has fewer enemies than most public men, a man who can be trusted for the rest of his days to uphold the office of Chancellor without any sparkling oratory, but with the dignity of a plain man great in his plainness...
Today, President Field Marshal von Hindenburg is the figurehead of the German Reich (the last word, still retained, means Empire), wielding power comparable to but less extensive than that of the French President. He has sworn to uphold the Constitution, and, after hearing of his election, said: "The people must not imagine I shall let myself be steered by any party." But he will be the symbol of Monarchy and as such can be counted upon with certainty on rallying still more Germans to the cause of Monarchism. The first blow has been struck for the return of the Monarchy...
...straddle this musical comedy like those of the Colossus at Rhodes. Florenz Ziegfeld's latest musical pageant and village carnival has been produced on a scale of towering magnificence. It outshines a Mardi Gras festival and the Follies combined. But unless the book had Mr. Errol's legs to uphold it, it could hardly stand on its own feet...