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Professor Kirsopp Lake and Associate Professor R. P. Blake, '09. Director of the Harvard University Library, are leading the archaeological expedition which is going out from Harvard this week to continue researches in the Sinai peninsula. Professor R. F. Butin of the Catholic University of America will be a member of the expedition, which is being carried out under the joint auspices of the two Universities...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
...boon to Newport-bound socialites is the new bridge. Long have they had to cross to the southern peninsula on a slow, chugging ferry, instituted in 1680, onetime carrier of Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau...
...Alligators are rated as one of the strongest teams south of the Mason and Dixon line. The long trek north, however, may work a bad effect on its touted Notre Dame offensive. The Peninsula State players are used to performing in clear, warm weather and the raw New England climate, coupled with the train trip, may not be to their liking...
When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...