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...price of $500 was put on his head. Fourteen days and nights Ismael Husseyin wandered in the mountains, his bare feet torn on the rocks. Starving, last week he entered a village to search for food. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
...present Freshman Library Building, ending its usefulness this year, will be torn down or removed from its site in front of Standish Hall, according to Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen. The building, originally more convenient to first-year students than the libraries of the yard, will give place this summer to an open triangle of grass and shrubbery. 2500 or more books essential for Freshman History and English studies will probably be placed in what is now a private dining room on the second floor of the Union, where the volumes will be used for study and kept entirely...
...crew coach's launch, a gaping hole in its side. In the chapel choir room was heard miaowing, tinkling a cat was shut up in the piano. Chapel memorials to deceased worthies were ink-spattered, mutilated. A crucifix was found in bushes near the chapel: it had been torn from its niche, tossed through a window...
...route to further cinemacting in Hollywood, were two of 300 tourists marooned in Wellton, Ariz, (no population, mostly Mormon), when bursting dikes let a giant wall of water sweep a 250-yard-wide path through the town. One woman was drowned, 4,000 ft. of Southern Pacific rail torn away...
Russell Hall is to be torn down. This may bring a transient discontent to graduates with sentimental recollections and to architects with the task of harmonizing the conglomerate Adams House, but it will be welcome news to the undergraduates. Nevertheless, the suggestion is rather too tardy to be met with whole-hearted approval. A little forethought could have prevented the architectural melee that now exists. Russell could have been torn down at an earlier time and a more symmetrical building erected on the ground between Westmorly and Plympton Street. But any change is desirable for the dormitory is neither comely...