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...will decide definitely whether Coach Martin will return or not. During the past week the Track Graduate Advisory Committee has drawn up a report which will be presented at tonight's meeting. Just what recommendation the Advisory Committee has made is not known although due to the recent friction it is probably unfavorable to the return of Coach Martin...
...comment in most quarters. The concensus of opinion is that the new coaches will standardize the style of rowing used by the University, the 150-pounders, and the Freshmen, so that a system will gradually be developed and shifts in the eights each year will not cause as much friction as formerly...
George Arliss impersonates, as he did in the stage version of two years ago, the Oxford-trained Rajah of Rukh. Into the Rajah's kingdom crash (in an airplane) two Englishmen and an English woman. Political friction, which obtains at the moment between the Rajah and the British rule in India, complicated by his sensibility of the woman's singular attractions, persuade the dignitary to sacrifice the males to the Green Goddess. The discovery of a wireless set in his palace and the subsequent arrival of British airplanes help to counteract his inhospitable intentions. The plot is well...
Considerable friction over this proposal arose between the Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta. The Boston Bank, now headed by W. P. G. Harding, former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, was first in the field with a proposal to establish a branch office in Havana. On the other hand, the Atlanta bank claimed that owing to geographical reasons, such a Havana branch should come under its jurisdiction...
...British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather, unshrinkable flannel, a noiseless airplane, a motor of one pound weight per horsepower, methods of reducing friction, practical ways of utilizing the tides...