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Fourteen cases of antiquities, part of the results of the Yale excavations during the past year at Doura-Europos in Mesopotamia, arrived at New Haven yesterday afternoon, according to a dispatch from Syria. These will be put on exhibition at the Yale gallery of fine arts during Commencement...
...turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with his sharp horn...
...Hoover reviews Greatest Naval Pageant in History of Nation" headlines the Metropolitan Press. For more than three hours, according to the news dispatch which adds color to the banner across the front page, the massed naval strength of the United States "played games of mimic warfare" with Commander-in-Chief Herbert Hoover as an interested spectator...
Flabbergasting Name. Laborites explained that the means to which Scot MacDonald resorted to satisfy his curiosity were justified by the grave Indian crisis. When three newspapers (London Daily Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Manchester Daily Dispatch) let out in advance the state secret that the MacDonald Government had decided to arrest St. Gandhi in India (TIME, May 12) even the cool Scot's nerves jumped...
...above dispatch received by the CRIMSON last night is the first news that has been received of the famous CRIMSON prognosticator since his hurried exit from Cambridge last fall following the football season. After querying the Oriental sage by wire the CRIMSON was assured by its cooney observer that he would be out of jail and forecast the Kentucky Derby for his Harvard and Cambridge followers tomorrow and that he would also decree the way the crews will finish in the four-cornered regatta on Saturday...