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...faltering in the Compton Cup race (loss to Princeton) and the Eastern sprint championships (second to Yale, easy conquest of Princeton), the Crimson crew displayed none of the exceptionally fine form it had shown in practice timings. The oarsmen lived up to their promise by upsetting Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup (Harvard's tenth straight) and later by breaking the two-mile record on Lake Cayuga...
...five: Chairman James W. Wadsworth, onetime New York Republican Congressman; M.I.T. ex-president Dr. Karl T. Compton; former Under Secretary of State William L. Clayton; retired Admiral Thomas Kincaid; Lieut. General R. S. McLain, onetime banker (Oklahoma City) and only National Guard officer to command a combat corps in World...
...solo presentations are also scheduled. A Spanish dance will be interpreted by Mrs. Elizabeth Pope Compton in authentic original costume. A progression of Russian dances from the 17th century on will be staged by Miss Elena Sergeyeva and Chris and David Bird...
...college presidents had not forgotten each other. Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University, St. Louis, got an LL.D. from Baylor University in Texas, and Harold Stassen of the University of Pennsylvania got one from Dickinson College, Pa. Wake Forest College, N.C. honored two traditional football rivals: the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray and Duke University's President Arthur Hollis Edens...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel Eng lish characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...