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White Star Plans. However, as Mr. Bruce said this, the White Star Line's London office announced plans for a new liner approximately 1,000 feet long, bigger than its Majestic and swifter than the Cunard Mauretania. As soon as one of the slips at Queen's Island, Belfast, is vacant, the new ship's keel will be laid...
...built less for speed than for cruising comfort. Except for two winter trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful mainly for advertising purposes. He considers that the new-type vessels being built considerably shorter than this by German shipyards will set the new standards for transatlantic...
Yale clinched as closely as is possible in the debatable destinies of football the eastern championship. Halfbacks Garvey and Hammersley, substitutes for the great Bruce Caldwell, retired, broke out with 53 and 42 yard runs respectively, harrowed Harvard, 14-0. For the first time in 20 years Yale had rushed the ball for a touchdown over Harvard's goal line at Cambridge...
...means all the 96 U. S. Senators subscribe to TIME. In fact, only 16 do. They are Senators: L. C. Phipps (Colorado), Hiram Bingham (Connecticut), Thomas F. Bayard (Delaware), T. Coleman du Pont (Delaware), Daniel F. Steck (Iowa), Arthur Capper (Kansas), Fred M. Sackett (Kentucky), William Cabell Bruce (Maryland), Harry B. Hawes (Missouri), Henry W. Keyes (New Hampshire), Walter E. Edge (New Jersey), Royal S. Copeland (New York), David A. Reed (Pennsylvania, Jesse H. Metcalf (Rhode Island), Peter Norbeck (South Dakota), Morris Sheppard (Texas...
...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...