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...their recent trip to Rye, New York, the Crimson golfers won one match and lost two. On Friday they bowed to the Georgetown forces by a 7 to 2 score, while on Saturday they split even, beating Pennsylvania easily 8 to 1 in the morning but losing to Princeton 6 to 3 in the afternoon. The results of the trip bring the totals of the season to date to four victories and two defeats...
According to the plans announced by the Harvard Democratic Club, the convention will be conducted under the same rules that govern the procedure of the Democratic national convention, the audience being split into delegations from the various states with a chairman leading each one. Measures are now being taken to prevent a preponderance of Eastern delegates at the expense of those from the West; it is planned that state representation should be approximately equal...
There was always a trick in Houdini's more startling performances, something like a false bottom or a split ring. It seemed perfectly legitimate, because the public goes to see a contortionist to be amusingly deceived. There was a trick in the Littleton release of Sinclair, too, only when the verdict was announced, the public did not seem amused...
...Toronto : "We need a Mussolini in Canada to wield a big stick over our big corporations! . . . The additional capital stock which the Bell Company seeks power to issue would never be utilized for extensions or added service to the public, but would be gobbled up in a huge melon split. . . . Outrageous...
...Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some astronomers proclaimed that the star had split in two. English and American astronomers were skeptical. Splitting a star in two would require an impact from without or an explosion from within of a force unthinkably great. It has never happened before...