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...Andover meet the Freshmen competed against one of the best interscholastic swimming teams in this part of the country. Andover captured every first place and every second save two, J. Wyman finishing second for 1923 in the fifty and Wilder finishing second in the two-twenty by a wide margin over Anderson of Andover. The school boys won both first and second in three events; the dive, plunge, and hundred. In the plunge Stillwell came within a foot of breaking the tank record, going seventy-two feet in sixty seconds...
...legal papers and addresses of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 of the Supreme Court, heretofore only privately and partially printed, are now to be published by Harcourt, Brace and Howe. The collection, which includes all his work since 1880, deserves wide recognition because of their distinguished style...
...since the trial of Warren Hastings for High Crimes and Misdemeanors has any prosecution attracted such wide interest as the trial of Joseph Caillaux. Trials for murder have ceased to interest a public used to violence of all kinds, but a trial for treason is sufficiently rare to greatly excite the public mind. The placing of Joseph Caillaux, former Premier of France, on trial on the charge of conspiracy against his country in time of war is the latest attempt to punish a man whose political career has been so shadowy as to excite grave suspicion...
...Hanson, the ex-mayor of Seattle, who won nation-wide fame by the efficiency and firmness with which he cleaned out the radical element in Seattle, will speak at an open mass meeting to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Scenic Temple Theatre at Central Square under the auspices of the Cambridge Board of Trade...
...preliminary tryouts. Every athlete of ability must be given a chance to win the honor of a place on the team. No stone should be left unturned to insure that the Olympic team measure up to the highest standard of American athletic prowess. The United States has won world-wide renown by her victories in previous Olympic contests. May the United States still wear that crown of glory when the 1920 Olympiad has passed into history. --BOSTON TRANSCRIPT...