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...returned to the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon after he was employed by the Bell Telephone Company, in which connection for the next ten years, he had charge of the delicate process of making bustling businessmen out of college graduates. Big Business has quite evidently touched brisk, white-haired President Wickenden. Upon his arrival at Case he decided that the school needed a livelier song. Not content with one that Composer Werner Janssen turned out, "he sat down and dashed out another set with more punch." Asked how he liked Cleveland and his new job, President Wickenden said...
Candidates for the end positions were given a brisk drill in snaring forward passes by E. H. Bradford '26, end coach, R. H. O'Connell ocC, regular end on the 1929 team, and S. C. Burns ocC, second string end last fall. The backfield men were supervised by E. L. Casey '19, head backfield coach, and W. R. Harper '30, fullback on the 1929 eleven in handling the ball, and bucking imaginary lines, while the lines were put through their offense manouevers by coaches W. A. Cleary '15, C. J. Hubbard '24, and John Donovan...
...reasons are given for Peiping's revival. One is the brisk increase in tourists from foreign countries. The other is that North China has been entirely free from civil wars since June 1928, when the Nationalists entered the city...
...remembered this next day when Dr. H. W. Leatham and his partner, Lord Aberdare, who with another partner won the national U. S. doubles championship two years ago when he was the Hon. Clarence Napier Bruce, stepped on the court long enough to give Kemp-Welch and Cambridge a brisk lesson and lift the title...
...made its annual visit to Manhattan. Detroit's double-barreled man is Ossip Gabrilowitsch, long famed as a pianist of the first order, famed since he began working in Detroit (1918) as an able conductor. His performance last week was to conduct Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's brisk Concerto in D, followed with an uneven performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Then, handing his baton to capable Victor Kolar, he seated himself at the piano, played Mozart's D Minor Concerto with such expert tenderness as to make many in the audience almost regret that...