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...simply baffled by the way things were turning out. He offered to marry Bee, but she wouldn't accept?she wasn't asking for charity. He knew he ought to be devoted to Cecil?but he just didn't feel that way. The child estranged them. To cap the climax, he found himself arrested and convicted for theft?out on the rock-pile making big ones into little ones. Life had knocked him out in the first round...
Juniors in cap and gown always attract the attention of their classmates and of students from colleges where four years of study is the minimum required for a degree. Three year graduates, scorning the ways of the ordinary mortal and completing in three years what takes others four, make up an unusually large proportion of the graduating body at Harvard...
...year, but their claim has not been absolute by any means. Professors, denizens of Radcliffe, and the whole populace of Cambridge-beyond-the-walls have made free with the walks as though they were public thorough-fares, and underclassmen have felt perfectly at home there. But tonight the cap and gown will be the only recognized uniform, and for once the Senior will be monarch of all he surveys...
...while many others are missing from the ranks. Once out of the Freshman Dormitories, it has had little to draw it together, and the forces of disintegration are strong. Seniors who thought themselves widely acquainted have been surprised, since May first, at the number of strangers who wear the cap and gown. It is not until Commencement Week, to be sure, that the Senior is supposed to "have his day"; but Commencement Week will be disrupted by visitors, and there will be no chance then for making or renewing acquaintances. The gathering tonight is a preliminary which will...
Next in the air but on a bed of sickness Major Thomas Scott Baldwin died in Buffalo at the age of 69. Long associated with aeronautics, " Cap " Baldwin was the originator of the parachute and was the first man to dare descend in one-in San Francisco in 1885. For many years he flew and manufactured balloons, dirigibles and planes. In 1893 he operated at the World's Fair in Chicago the first balloons owned by the United States Army. During the war he was Chief of the Army Balloon Inspection Service...