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...Representative Crumpacker, Oregon Congressman, called at the White House to protest to the President against the sale of the Admiral Line by the Shipping Board to the Dollar shipping interests. Senator Copeland, New York's Democratic Senator, called on the President to explain his bill for preventing strikes in the anthracite industry. A committee of the National Training Camps Association called to discuss the costs of summer military training. Speaker Longworth called to tell the President that he hoped Congress could adjourn by the middle of June...
...Soule '27, Chairman of the Committee, will outline the plans for next year and will explain the innovations which have recently been instituted in the advisory system. The most important change is the cutting down of the number of advisers to about 75. A particular effort has been made to pick men who will be willing and able to give their attention to the problem of advising Freshmen...
...season training. It is natural that they should turn to weights and yet it is a difficult task for the big man to perfect timing and rhythm, which are all-important to the shot putter. The increase in public interest in the event is not difficult to explain. This week's competitors will toss the sixteen-pound ball from a spot within the view of thousands in the Stadium. It will require only a glance to show how far their efforts go. Large placards bearing the number of feet appear on white lime lines and present day knowledge of what...
...averaged better than in the post-war period of similar length. One reason for this odd development traces to the presence of two of the world's most wonderful athletes in the pre-war era: John Paul Jones of Cornell and Ted Meredith of Penn. But that does not explain why the furlong sprint, the shot put and the pole vault averages for the post-war period have failed to measure up to the figures established in the eight years before the war. Here are the figures...
...gave their followers a new start when it was found early yesterday morning that their motion had stopped. The twin baskets have maintained a slow twirling motion, except for a brief interruption two weeks ago, since they were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded to see them motionless. They still hung, however, in their usual case just as before; here...