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Three months ago, when the Morgan Liner Dixie was grounded in a hurricane in the Florida Straits, her 231 passengers spent some 60 hours face to face with the greatest terror of their lives. Kept from their staterooms by sloshing sewage and seawater, they huddled about the smashed furniture in...
Lawrence Ross '37, grounded G. Gardner of Tech 12-15, 17-15, 15-12, and 15-12. Daniel F. Koyes '38 then trounced B. Greenberg 16-14, 16-15, and 15-11. Thomas Sherwin '37, next beat A. Stearns 15-11, 16-18, 18-14, and 15-6.
To the rest of the world this was front page stuff but to Italians it was panic. If Mr. Walters and Mr. Loveday were telling the truth, Dictator Mussolini was being knifed by Dictator Hitler. In Rome shaking fingers reached for the telegraph tape clicking off from Berlin: "FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS...
In 1935 Mark Sullivan, now famed as a political pundit, is the Jeremiah of the (J. S. Press. Thrice weekly in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and 92 other newspapers, and on Sunday in the Herald Tribune and 72 others, he croaks fearfully against the New Deal. He...
There is nothing astounding or unexpected in these radical changes, except perhaps in the case of military science. The statistics only substantiate the reported trend in educational pursuits. Where once the mark of an educated man was his familiarity with the Classics and philosophy, today the student is considered ignorant...