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Fifteen of the 25 men who are going south have already been chosen. They were announced yesterday by Coach Farrell as follows: sprinters, A. H. Miller '27, C. G. T. Lundell '27, and H. B. Peck '26; middle and long distance runners; F. P. Kane '26, J. N. Watters '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, W. S. Tibbetts '26, R. G. Luttman '28, and A. H. O'Neil '28; Jumpers, S. M. Clark '26, S. B. Jones '26; pole vaulter, S. O. Combs '26; and weight man, P. E. Berglund '26, and C. A. Pratt...
James E. Howard presented a list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch...
...play possesses on unusual feature. The man who in the first act is very distinctly a comic relief character, turns out to be most important before the end. In the part of Dr. Peck, Mr. Norman Cannon, of austere and hawk-like countenance, is well cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
...District Judge James H. Peck of Missouri. Acquitted...
...Yard Dash Miller, Burns, Peck...