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Besides its thrills "The Skull" has very little indeed to offer. The authors are frank enough to make no pretense at plot, and the advertisements for the play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...
...followed by Lieut. Charles B. Momsen, co-inventor of the mechanical "lung" (oxygen mask) with which both were equipped. The two men ascended 20 ft. at a time and then rested, holding the life line to keep themselves from bobbing quickly to the surface and meeting death from the sudden change of pressure. From 160 ft. they rose in 13 minutes, from 200 ft. in 20 minutes. Examined by doctors, they showed no ill effects...
Professor James Sturgis Pray '95, head of the School of Landscape Architecture for nearly 20 years, passed away Friday at his home in Cambridge. There had been no confining illness, and the change was sudden and without serious pain. Services will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock by Reverend C. R. Eliot. Classes in the School of Landscape Architecture will be suspended after 12 o'clock...
...conceited, cultured, intelligent member of the best Continental society is forced by sudden poverty to start his life over again in a tremendously different environment. He accepts his new position, or rather the lack of it, in an adventurous spirit, despite the disillusionments and disappointments lying in his path. The large body of the book is taken up with the transition in the immigrant's whole attitude, his entire philosophy, from that of an over-educated gentlemen of leisure into a semi-radical but far more human character...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...