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...interior. As the ball grew by these constant accretions, the corresponding expansion of the surface would both enlarge the diameter of the original craters and in some cases break them up, causing the irregular arcs and mountain chains, just as the designs on a child's balloon change shape when it is inflated. The theory is at least as plausible as any other that has been advanced...
...University baseball squad is slowly rounding into shape as a result of the practices gradually increasing in severity through which Coach Slattery is putting his men. Sliding practice has been under way since Monday and fielding and batting work-outs have grown steadily more intensive. It now seems possible that the threatened weakness in the pitching staff will be overcome since K. N. Hill '24 and J. E. Toulmin '25 have both improved rapidly and now give promise of becoming a strong pair upon whom the University can rely. L. C. Larrabee '24 seems sure to fill the first catcher...
...subject scientifically," said Mr. Davis, "students must be ready to believe many things, and must be prepared to carry the evidence to its conclusion, even though it upset some previous beliefs or opinions. If they add to previous knowledge a careful and orderly consideration of the topic, and shape their beliefs to accord with new facts, then the scientific process begins, and subjects treated in this manner, when they exist in the field of nature, become natural history...
Coach Davidson has been whipping the battery men in shape for the more intensive training that they will receive later. Candidates for the battery positions that have been showing up well in practice are T. G. Wheelock who caught and pitched for three years on the Groton team and Winsor Harlow who pitched for Milton the last three years...
...commercial airship line between Chicago and New York, often discussed, took definite shape last week. A corporation is to be formed in which Marshall Field, William Wrigley, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benedict Crowell, former Assistant Secretary of War, and Owen D. Young, Vice-President of the General Electric Company, will be members...