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Still I was undecided about the CRIMSON--they wouldn't accept my contributions to the Confidential Guide to College Courses, giving me some silly excuse about having no money to defend libel suits. That was uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in Shemokin Pa., I put a large red apple on teacher's desk daily, and Freshman year I gave my German A instructor a box of ripe red raspberries one day and a basket of nice prickly pears the next...
...when September winds call them home from the wild streets and fields-obedient children, bringing fruit or flowers, are accustomed to chant to fresh-faced schoolmarms. William Albertson, a boy whose arithmetic was always wrong, hummed no such homage as he lounged carelessly into his sixth-grade seat at the Brainard Public...
Aboard the City of Eureka, ship that sailed from Manhattan last week, a well groomed heifer whisked her tail; a bull, morose, fastened in his stall, braced his feet; 13 other high-grade bulls and heifers stirred uneasily to the vibration of the ship. They, blessed by Father Lazarus of the Orthodox Greek Church in Manhattan, were on their way to Athens, where they are intended to stimulate and improve (with the co-operation of the Near East Relief), the native animal husbandry...
Fuel Acids. Chemist H. C. Mougy of the General Motors research staff pointed out that the U. S. oil industry could save 50 millions per annum in refining costs if motor designers could safeguard motors against fuels containing a higher percentage of sulphur than is now left in good grade gasoline. Motor designers aim to protect motors from sulphuric acid corrosion by eliminating condensation of the water vapor from burning fuel...
Died. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 39, fishmonger, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass. (see p. 10). Died. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 53, naturalist, painter of birds; from burns and crushing in a grade crossing motor accident near Unadilla...