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With the fall activities of the Freshman Physical Training Course well in the background, winter sports began recently with squash leading the field, a total of 170 first year men having signed up at Wadsworth House for this form of practice, it was announced last night by C. B. Yan Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education. Next in popularity among the Freshmen is winter crew, 107 men electing to row during the winter months. Special corrective exercises drew the next largest number of students, 104 being enrolled in this class. Every first year man who failed...
...instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive to rescue both of them. The melodrama of the story would make it seem strained in any setting; but such is the splendor of the background that probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms and ski races, capable if not superlative acting by Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker and Ernst Peterson, make the picture a valuable and exciting experiment in spectacle and a worthy product of the German UFA, noted...
...been well chosen; but even so, the point is somewhat blunted by your devoting most of two columns to three of Wooster's illustrious sons. I was privileged to know them all; Dr. Elias Compson, "77, Dean ("pink-slips"), as little as possible; "Prep" Arthur H. in the vague background; Karl, '07, as Captain and left end of the team on which I played an intermittent right end. Largely due to Karl, that team was not scored upon until its final game, when a soggy Columbus field enabled a heavier Ohio State eleven to score two touchdowns; both around...
...favorite phrases is "Yours till the next big strike," saw a chance to foment general unrest in Colorado after the success of their Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. That, plus the natural desire of laborers for higher pay, and the tendency of coaldiggers to suspect their washed-&-brushed employers, was the background of "wobbling" last week in Colorado...
...Miracle Play will be given against the Cathedral background of the Germanie Museum on the evenings of December 19 and 20. On both nights there will be two complete performances, the first beginning at 7.30 o'clock, and the second at 9 o'clock. Admission to the Miracle Play is free to patrons of the Dramatic Club's fall production, "The Chisholm Trail." Tickets of admission may be obtained upon request on the nights of the performances of "The Cviholm Trail...