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...long drawn and musically wild and unearthly, that . . . I stood gazing up at the clouds whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the crosstrees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's lookouts, perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could that accustomed old cry have derived such...
...Another complaint peculiar to men from western schools seems to be their difficulty in becoming acclimated. The sudden weather changes in Boston and Cambridge have been a source of astonishment and no little discomfort for the students from the great open spaces...
...Administration, searching, perhaps, for a graceful end to the wrangle, has taken a sudden interest in the comparatively aged Hague Court. Here is a, chance to do something big and clean in an international way. Last week Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, after a conference with President Coolidge, announced that he would put before Congress a resolution proposing a third Hague conference to codify international law. Whenever the Hague or the World Court is mentioned, Elihu Root is waited upon for an opinion. Wise, he has spoken...
...Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...
James Byrne '77, has resigned his position as a member of the Corporation, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Byrne, a New York lawyer, has cut short his services to the University during his 26-year tenure of office by his sudden resignation...