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Harvard has had only a fair season this year. The team defeated Holy Cross 19-36, and placed second to New Hampshire in the tri-meet with Dartmouth...
...same time as the Varsity race, the Harvard Freshmen will match the Yale and Princeton cubs in another tri-meet. The Harvard first year men have had a successful season so far, defeating Holy Cross 20-35, and New Hampshire 18-37. They are expected to beat Princeton for the championship in a close race. Princeton 1937 has won a meet from Lafayette 20-35, and has defeated the Columbia Freshmen 22-33. The Yale Freshman team has not competed in any races this year, and little is known of its power. Captain Joseph G. Duchesne, Paul V. Harper...
...improved by a reduction in the number of lectures and by an increase in reading lists. It was proposed that fifteen lectures, delivered during the closing weeks of the term would serve a double purpose: such a system would relieve professors of the onus which attends bi- and tri-weekly expositions, and it would give students an opportunity to observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means be fatal; but it will insure a continuation of a major bane of American education...
...request. For several months airway beacon lights have been turned off between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...