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This game will be the first appearance of the squad this year and will give the spectators a chance to size up the prospects for the year. The hoopsters have been getting into shape rapidly and should be in good trim for their game with Boston College on December 9. Three football players, W. R. Harper '30, J. E. Combs ocC., and S. C. Burns '30, who have had a two weeks' respite following the close of the football season are now out and materially strengthen the team...
...reason why Charles Albert Levine did not immediately return home appeared last week. From France came four men and a model. She was trim, neatly proportioned, tapering. She was a model for a 40-ton, 7-motored "flying wing," the like of which Mr. Levine hopes to put into transatlantic passenger operation next year. With her came two Frenchmen-Alexander Kartvelichvili, Edmond Chagniard, her designers...
...Emerson senior class, glib talker, good swimmer, got together with Jack Keener, sleek cheerleader, and Sam Chase, smart debater, and some of the athletically "big men" of Emerson, to talk things over. Result: on Monday morning, instead of attending classes, some 800 Emersonians in floppy trousers, sporty sweaters, trim skirts and fetching blouses, went shouting and laughing through Gary's business section. Police disbanded them for "obstructing traffic" but many of them later stood around outside Emerson High School, hissing, gibing, catcalling at nonstriking students when school let out. Policemen saw to it that the 24 Negroes went home...
...time (1913-17) governor of Delaware, father of Col. Thomas Woodnut Miller, onetime (1925) U. S. Alien Property Custodian; at Clementon, N. J. of heart disease. He told his host, Col. Joseph H. Baker, he desired exercise. Said Col. Baker, smiling: "Well here's a saw; go trim some of the evergreens." Mr. Miller eagerly agreed, and died of overexertion...
Modern efficiency has given substantial blackboards, trim cabinets with brass locks, skylights and shrewd ventilating systems to the classrooms of U. S. public schools. But the "art objects" on the walls have changed little since the days of slates and coal stoves. Pupils are still schooled among lithographs of George Washington crossing the Delaware, paintings of cows and baskets of fruit, cheap etchings of Longfellow and Lincoln...