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...Navy Department recently secured a special appropriation of $6500,000 to increase the angle to which guns on 13 battleships could be raised, in order to extend their range. The reason given was that England was doing the same. Now the British Admiralty announces that the angle of the British guns was not raised and the range of their guns was not increased. The Navy Department, however, is considering increasing the angle of our guns in spite of the Admiralty's statement. The British Navy already has a range about 3,000 yards greater than ours. The Japanese battleship...
...work will extend over a period of three weeks totaling about 45 hours. The fields of literature, art music, pedagogy, and the financial and economic problems of the old world will be treated by professors who are leading authorities in these branches of learning...
...Marvin '98, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, in his speech told of the advantages of affiliating with the Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association and then gave a brief history of the Harvard Clubs that now extend all over the world...
Contrary to the previous plan of holding the entire schedule of events of the annual Winter Carnival at Soldiers Field on next Thursday afternoon, the track management has announced that the meet will extend over several successive afternoons. The broad jump will be contested today, the javelin throw, high jump, shot put, and pole vault tomorrow, and the discus and hammer throws and running events on Thursday...
...preserved speeches in the Record. On the other hand, statesmen who find passages in current periodicals which agree with their own principles, obtain unanimous consent to have them reprinted in the Record, in heavy type so that the words of wisdom may not be overlooked. More than this, Congressmen "extend" their remarks ad lib., and the printed speeches which have never been delivered are sent to their home constituents, to confirm the voters' faith that their Congressmen are still working for them...