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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's fall polo activities got away to a flying start yesterday when approximately 35 men reported to Captain F. D. Sharp, polo mentor, for the initial practise of the year. Two lettermen from last year indoor and outdoor intercollegiate champions along with six numeral men from the Freshman squad reported...
After assigning ponies to the men Coach Sharp took the Freshmen out for their initial drill. The University and 1933 squads will work out on alternate days this fall, playing on the field behind, the Business School...
...steel, lighter than aluminum, heat resisting, tough. Metallurgists have not compounded it. But some 6,000 of them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the Foundry City.* Manganese-Molybdenum Steel. Hard and sharp were the Samurai swords of Japan, the Toledo blades of Spain, the Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until the 1790's. Metallurgists did not introduce...
...interest in racial superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...
...plain near Port Clinton, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. All were picked shots. Over their shoulders were slung rifles with well-oiled firing chambers, speckless bores. The walnut stocks were worn, rubbed to an oily, deep brown. Across their backs were stretched bandoleers full of sharp-nosed cartridges. Thousands of rounds of ammunition lay in neat cases around them. To bivouac the force, peaked, tan canvas service tents were thrown up along orderly streets. To many of the riflemen tenting was new. No novelty was it for 1,000 of the force, members of the Army, Navy, Marine...