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Again as last year the opponents for the Crimson skaters will be from Clarkson Tech, a small technical school located in New York State not far from the Canadian border. In the three encounters last year, the Varsity split exactly even; winning one, tying another, and losing the third...
...prejudiced by the liberal policies of Princeton and other colleges with which we are acquainted, but it is pretty hard to understand the grounds on which morality can thus be split up and classified. In fact we can hardly be blamed for indulging in a slightly self-satisfied smile because they stopped "legislating morals" on that subject here quite some time ago. -Daily Princetonian
...London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet is reported split three ways within itself as King Edward at his snuggery maintains a highly mobile position, ready for instant action. Not only articles of abdication but an entire sheaf of other solutions, drafted in legal form by the King's personal Attorney General Walter Turner Monckton, lie ready...
...Chicago last week the directors and principal stockholders of Spiegel, May, Stern Co. Inc., mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science...
...short cut from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino, Calif., entered the Valley by way of Furnace Creek and never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers, who split off to save themselves when the train bogged down, turned aside to locate what became known as the Lost Gunsight Mine, and never got out of Death Valley either. Only survivors were the families in four wagons trailing behind the Jayhawkers. When, the wagons could go no further, two young scouts...