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...shell is wall-sided and an inch deeper than is usual. It is fitted, there fore, for a heavy crew and rides high in the water despite the weight of the present eight. For the past few years some well-known critics of rowing have declared that the University crews have been down at the bow. A consideration of the weights as published on Thursday and of the shell as it rode yesterday makes it clear, however, that this criticism cannot be repeated this year. The shell has been rigged under the direction of Dr. Howe and the Graduate Committee...
...Classics have not yet fallen undefended. This change has come in spite of arguments and defenses prepared by learned men of every sort. Scott called success without classics climbing a wall when it was possible to present a ticket at the gate. The value of a classical education has been extolled in many books and supported by the statements of business men, lawyers and even engineers who strongly advise any man considering his profession to study the ancients. Everyone quotes the story of the man who had nothing to fall back upon after becoming rich, as the threatening damnation into...
...spoke of the world-wide movement of the Soviet government to spread propaganda and sow discord. "There never was a time in the history of this country when there was so much need for red-blooded Americanism. The Soviet government is responsible for the Wall Street bomb, and they paid, for that. And if I had my way about it, I'd index every alien in this country; and for those who are seeking, to overthrow the country, I'd drive them out and send them back where they belong". In speaking of the younger generation, Mr. Burns said...
...cases undertaken as president of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, the Wall Street bomb explosion is the most famous one Mr. Burns has undertaken recently. He was on the scene of the explosion one minute after it occurred with a score of men; at that time he told the reporters that it was a plan of the communist government to startle the world. The Burns Agency has been making a worldwide search for the perpetrators of the explosion, and, it is claimed, are slowly rounding them...
...more recent cases, the Wall Street bomb explosion is by far his most famous one. One minute after the explosion occurred, Detective Burns was on the scene with a score of men; he told the reporters at that time it was a plan of the communist government to startle the world. Upon the evidence of witnesses, a composite picture of the man who drove the dynamite wagon was made, but all efforts to locate him were unsuccessful. The Burns Agency is still on the track of the criminals...