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...boxes will be erected in the interior of the Stadium in front of the immense stage which will be erected will inside the north end of the Stadium. The orchestra pit will be sunk sufficiently so that box holders will have a view of the entire stage. To perfect the acoustics a large shell or soundboard will be constructed...
...drama is in three acts and is described as a play of contemporaneous life in the Middle West. The story is about a baby adopted by a childless couple who come upon it during a flood. The two have sunk low in degeneracy and hope to obtain an inheritance by pretending the child to be their own. Through the rest of the plot, the influence of the child causes a gradual regeneration. The scenes are laid in Cincinnati during a time of flood, and in an Ohio farmhouse...
...glad to hear that the Student Council has taken on itself the responsibility of entertaining visiting teams. Last year a committee for this purpose was appointed by the Athletic Committee, but it has apparently sunk into oblivion, and some permanent body is needed to take its place. We cannot overestimate the importance of fulfilling this duty carefully. Too often have visiting teams left Cambridge feeling that Harvard was distinctly unfriendly, simply because an overworked manager was the only one supposed to look out for them, and he had too many other important things to do. With no one to extend...
...mechanism of control. Instead of being mounted on pedestals of cast iron, cement or masonry firmly built into the ground, as most large telescopes are, it rests on a great hollow cylinder immersed in a tank of water. A tank lined with thick walls of solid concrete was first sunk in the ground, and in this receptacle, ballasted with about 10 tons of iron at its lower end, floats the steel cylinder forming the polar axis of the telescope...
...Read served in the United States Navy through the whole Civil War. He was on the iron clad Keokuk when it was riddled and sunk by the fire of Fort Sumter in 1863. After taking part in several other engagements be was made a prisoner of war and confined for eight months in a prison stockade. Of the hundred and eleven men captured with him, but thirty survived the imprisonment...