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...sixteen drawings submitted were judged yesterday afternoon by a jury consisting of Professor J. S. Pray '95, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97 and Mr. Loring Underwood '97, a prominent Boston landscape designer, whose lectures on Colonial gardens are widely known...
Drawings to be entered in the annual competition for the Toplarian Club Trophy are due at the office of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture in Robinson Hall this evening at 6 o'clock. Sixteen members of the Landscape Architecture courses 2 and 3 have entered. On a date which will be announced soon, a jury consisting of Professor J. S. Pray '95, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, and a well known landscape designer who has no connection with the University, will judge the drawings and will award first, second and third places. The winner will have his name inscribed...
...finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family; Bobble is burdened with the dark crime of having kissed the housemaid in "a moment of sensuosity," as he tragically confesses, while passionately in love with the governess, Miss Pinney,--"the most spiritual-minded woman...
...sharp contrast to the European countries, the United States has embarked upon a sudden and extravagant orgy of shipbuilding and increase in armament. Sixteen capital ships are being built, and millions of dollars will be expended in the effort to make our navy the "biggest in the world." America is bringing naval rivalry back once more...
...Yale defense showed its bull-dog characteristic when its goal-line was twice threatened. There was no question, however, where the offensive superiority lay. Harvard rushed the ball one hundred and ninety-five yards, while Yale gained only sixty-eight in this way. Harvard made sixteen first downs compared with five for Yale, but it was in the forward passing game that the eleven showed itself so vastly superior. The team started its passes in the first few plays and so successful were they, that sixteen were thrown during the game, of which nine were completed for a total gain...