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March 28, 1926

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BIG COLLEGES START AN EVENTS CONTEST; Representatives of 11 Schools Agree on Terms of Competition Sponsored by The Times. FACULTY INTEREST KEEN Winner in Each College to Get a Gold Medal and $250 -- Examination in World's Happenings to Decide. BIG COLLEGES START AN EVENTS CONTEST

By Unknown Author

Representatives of eleven great institutions of learning met in the office of THE NEW YORK TIMES yesterday morning and set in motion the machinery which will provide for the examinations on the basis of which will be awarded the prizes which THE NEW YORK TIMES has offered to the student in each of these institutions who shows the most thorough and intelligent knowledge of current events.

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FORECASTING THE NEXT FEW WARS; A Scientific Study of Causes Proposed as a Means of Prevention THE ORIGIN OF THE NEXT WAR. By John Bakeless. 318 pp. New York: The Viking Press. $2.50. The Next Few Wars

By John Carter

THAT the war to end war did not succeed in ending war, that the present state of the world contains elements calculated to produce new conflicts, and that attempts to ignore their existence or palliate their effect are futile, is the thesis of this book. Now if the only cure for war is the scientific study of its causes, then such an essay as "The Origin of the Next War" is worthy of notice.

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Notable Births

Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba

1926Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (died 2014)[†]

María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 18th Duchess of Alba GE was a Spanish aristocrat.

Polly Umrigar

1926Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer (died 2006)[†]

Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played in the Indian cricket team and played first-class cricket for Bombay and Gujarat. Umrigar played mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowled occasional medium pace and off spin. He captained India in eight Test matches from 1955 to 1958. When he retired in 1962, he had played in the most Tests (59), scored the most Test runs (3,631), and recorded the most Test centuries (12) of any Indian player. He scored the first double century by an Indian in Test cricket against New Zealand in Hyderabad. In 1998, he received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour the Indian cricket board can bestow on a former player.