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...This move will cause a radical change in the schedules of next year's Freshman teams. For the past two or three years, Freshman trips between the two Universities have been frequent. Last year the 1926 Freshman teams met in every major sport except hockey, and this year contests have been held between the Harvard and Princeton Freshmen in football baseball, and track. Next year, however, all Freshman contests between the two Universities will be cancelled. In explaining this arrangement, Mr. Moore said...
...there are now, many theatres in many cities where the dramatic talent of foreign nations is produced in all its original beauty. New York has its Jewish theatres, its Polish theatres, its Greek theatres; and even Boston itself, that part of the universe which is vulgarly imagined to move the slowest, has its own producing companies of Chinese. Mr. Van Dycke has instituted a reform of far more universal significance; if he is successful, his name will go ringing down the centuries coupled with those of Garibaldi and Bolivar. His memory will, be a sacred thing, and multitudes will call...
...Story. Percy Bysshe Shelley, scion of a rich Whig family, first went to Eton. He was "exceptionally beautiful, with brilliant blue eyes, dark curling hair and a delicate complexion." The brutal Vita Etonica shocked his sensitive mind and he was glad to move on to the freedom of Oxford...
...printing plant of Collier's Weekly, for many years located in Manhattan, is moving west to Springfield, Ohio. The editorial and business departments remain behind. Lower postage charges and an open shop are two of the chief factors prompting the movement. This is said to be the ninth magazine to leave Manhattan in 18 months. Other prominent magazines to move west were the Hearst publications, which went to Chicago and McCall's which went to Dayton. Westward the star of printing takes...
...York end the receiving apparatus consists of an electric lamp behind a thin metal wall, placed in a strong magnetic field. The wall forms one side of a narrow slot through which the light passes. The fluctuations in the current passing through the magnetic field move the metal wall back and forth according to their intensity, making the slot wider or narrower. The light beam, passing through the slot, falls on the revolving cylinder, printing broader or narrower lines of light on the film. With each revolution the cylinder is jerked 1/65th of an inch to the right...