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...Delmar Leighton '19 has been given general supervisory authority over all rowing exclusive of the University squad. This position does not carry with it any coaching duties, but is intended to form a medium through which any of the more intricate problems of organization and co-operation between the various departments of the crew system can be adjusted. The problem of the organization of rowing at the University, which has proved to be so complicated in seasons past, is still more so this year, and it is in full realization of this fact that the present scheme has been...
...Stephen Gosson, the architect who designed the sets. The costumer, one William Israel, is but a step behind him. Between them, with the help of a good director and a few thousand broadswords, they have constructed a thing of permanent beauty. Gothic architecture is, in the main, their medium; their background, the flashing pageantry of 16th Century France. So painstaking is their detail, so accurate their reproduction, so beautiful their finished product, that the French Chamber of Deputies has requested a copy of the film for the historical archives of the Carnavalet Museum, Paris...
...current by induction. This power operates three cab signals to the engineer, but at the same time turns on the air-brakes if the train is too near another, is exceeding proper speed or approaching an open switch. The signals are for full speed ahead with two " blocks" clear, medium speed with one block clear, and stop when within 1,800 feet of a train or switch. Whether the engineer fails to do his part or not, he cannot run his train into danger. Should the control system itself get out of order, all trains in the block would...
...42nd year, as the Dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini is largely a miniature Napoleon, whose gestures he loves to imitate. Of medium height and pale complexion, with lustreless eyes, he controls the Italian ship of state, firmly convinced that his Fascisti are the saviours of his country. In affairs of state Mussolini exhibits remarkable self-control, rare judgment and an efficient application of his ideas to the solving of existing problems...
Stocky Man, Bluff Man, He Shakes a Gallant Mast As I heard Joseph Conrad, hunched down in his chair, puzzled by the questions that were thrown at him, say again that English had chosen him for a medium of expression, that he had not chosen English, I wondered if America had not chosen William McFee. This younger novelist of the sea is becoming of the United States in everything but appearance, speech and literary style...