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Having personally directed the sleuthing, Commissioner Mulrooney announced that Miss Bischoffs murderer was one Harry Stein, 32-year-old footpad. He was found to have had in his possession a mink coat, from which the lining and identifying tags had been torn, and an unmounted diamond. (Miss Bischoffs mink coat and diamond ring were missing when her corpse was found.) Four others were arrested as his accomplices...
...having in Appleton Chapel been lifted up occasionally by some big man as Doughty of Yale and Tucker of Dartmouth for instance I would almost cry to see Appleton torn down...
...official developments were forthcoming yesterday, except the statement that Appleton would not be torn down until after the end of the present college term, instead of in May as reported yesterday. Numerous communications were received by the CRIMSON, which will be published as space permits. Both sides are represented in the letters, and a number of ideas are submitted suggesting what form the memorial might take instead of a chapel. A large number of students were of the opinion that if a chapel is to be erected, it should be placed outside the Yard, preferably near the river, where...
...place, the prospect of a tower higher than that of Memorial Hall to "balance" Widener Library suggests the balancing of a hippopotamus by a giraffe or another architectural nightmare like the balancing of the Indoor Athletic Building by the Lowell House Tower. (I would suggest that Memorial Hall by torn down and the Chapel erected in its place until the next war comes along. The plot of ground between Broadway and Kirkland Street might well be consecrated to a succession of memorials...
Many have been the hackings of great works of art, seldom is the damage irreparable. In the Ryks Museum itself, The Night Watch, perhaps Rembrandt's greatest picture, had a small hole torn in it several years ago. But the most famed cases of art vandalism occurred in the staid British Museum and National Gallery, concerned the Portland Vase and Rokeby Venus...