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...this annual meeting more than 200 colleges from every part of the country, including the Pacific coast, will be represented. Committees will be chosen to consider any changes in the rules for football, soccer, basketball and a number of other sports for the coming season...
According to official University statistics there are over 500 men who live so far from Cambridge that they will be unable to join their families for the festivities during the Christmas Recess. Of this number, 200 live on the Pacific Coast and 24 in the various United States possessions. Some of them, of course, have friends in the east with whom they can spend the holidays, but most of them find it impossible to do so, and it is for their benefit that the various entertainments are being planned...
Much-sung football alumni of Pennsylvania, including "Lud" Wray, "Heine" Miller, "Poss" Miller, Bert Bell, "Lou" Young (head coach of Penn's unbeaten 1924 Varsity) stepped out on Franklin Field to keep Penn in trim for her holiday game on the Pacific Coast. They intercepted a pass, they passed themselves, they surpassed the Varsity...
...boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was not the handbill of a bigger and better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres-20,000 for carnivorous creatures, 30,000 for milder fauna-and save U. S. sportsmen the trouble of trekking over the globe for exotic prey...
Captain McMillan described a typical "day" on shipboard during the long and monotonous winter nights, when his boat was anchored off the coast of Greenland. "We used to get up at about 8 o'clock in the morning", he said. "We'd eat breakfast and then change the charts in the magnetic laboratory, which we set up for the purpose of studying terrestrial magnetism and its influence on navigation...