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...preparation for today's contest, the Seconds had a practice game yesterday afternoon, in which the regular nine showed marked improvement in its fielding abilities, although its hitting was still weak. After practice, the team unanimously elected Kenneth Boyd Lucas '23 of Brooklyn, N. Y., captain for the rest of the season. He is a graduate of the Polytechnical Preparatory School in Brooklyn, and has played a reliable game in the field with the Seconds for three years...
...Reserve Force, Class 6, with the rate of Apprentice Seaman, for the first year's training period, which will be from the beginning of the College vacation until the classes re-open in the Fall. This training will be given at the Divisional Air Station, Shore Road Park Extension, Brooklyn...
...Twilight sleep," popular name for the use of scopalamine as an anaesthetic during childbirth-a method which fell into disfavor after it was found to have a detrimental effect on babies thus born-is still used regularly in a modified form in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and some other hospitals. Dr. John 0. Polak has used it as a routine procedure in labor, with a resulting infant mortality for 1,000 cases of but 2.5 per cent, about one-fifth of the average for other deliveries. It should, of course, be administered only in hospitals and under specially...
...seventh daughter of a seventh daughter will not die young according to Negro tradition. In Brooklyn such an one just died at the age of 118 years...
Already Princeton has turned out a championship team, and Yale is not far behind. The big meet to be held in Brooklyn this week will give the game an added impetus which is now hardly necessary for its continued success. At the same time, it should be remembered that the Government is not supporting polo ponies all over the country to make a Roman holiday for the colleges. The object is to stimulate riding in the Training Corps units; to develop athletic skill in the future officers, to teach team-work and coordination,-in fact, to accomplish what sports...