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...Alexander of Belfast, Ireland, and Dr. T. W. F. Brown of Ayr, Scotland, holders of the two Blair Fellowships for this year, will carry on the experiments. There are only two Blair Fellowships providing for a year of graduate research in Engineering in an American university, the holders of which are chosen from the whole British Empire. Alexander, a graduate of Cambridge University, and Brown, who graduated from the University of Glasgow, are both specializing in the same field, and have both been working on the same problem, that of perfecting diesel engines for airplane use. They will combine forces...
...going to the kirk. Between times, it is golfing. Everyone plays. The courses string out among the dunes like a ribbon spattered green and gray-green with the white flecks of bunkers through it, so that they say you can play a ball all the 20 miles from Ayr up to Ardrossan without leaving the fairway. Last week, at Troon, which is hard by Prestwick* and not so far southwest of Glasgow, Britain's golfing women inarched among the dunes for their championship. In their own counties, they were most of them little champions, but among them there...
Daniel Dee Burnes, L. S. '74, died last Thursday morning at Ayr Lawn, near St. Joseph, Mo. He was born in Ringgold, Mo., Jan. 4, 1851, and after a public school education, entered St. Louis University. After graduation he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1874 with high honors. He afterward traveled extensively in Europe and other foreign countries, finally settling down to practice law in St. Joseph. He was nominated for Congress in 1892 and elected by a large majority. At the expiration of his term, he refused a re-nomination and retired from public...
...semi-finals of the Technology tennis tournament, Page '97, beat Burch '99, 2-6, 6-4, 6-0; Jackson '97, beat Ayr '99, 8-6, 8-6. This leaves Underwood '98, Page '97, and Jackson '97, still in the tournament, which will be finished today. Jackson is the probable winner...