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...These two sets of observations," wrote President Eliot, "one at Mt. Desert and the other at Cambridge, taught me that prohibitory legislation to be effective must be nation-wide, and that only national authority could really prevent both the manufacture and the transportation of intoxicating drinks.... When the results of the medical examinations of the drafted recruits for the American Expeditionary Force were published, with their very disappointing demonstration of the physical incapacity of a large proportion of the recruits, and Congress took measures for the protection of the camps of American troops preparing to go to France against saloons...
With Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Williams cutting into the points in the sprints, Penn State and Boston College are sure to make their presence felt in the middle distance runs, with Holy Cross furnishing a likely quarter-mile champion, and a wide, scattering of points in prospect in the distance runs. It again becomes apparent that the battle for the title should be fought out once more in the field, and it is the closeness of the fight that causes the Harvard followers to believe that Allen, Waters, Tibbetts, Hyatt, Fetcher, Eastman, and the redoubtable Carpenter, will annex just enough...
Yesterday afternoon on the Divinity Courts, the undefeated second tennis team met the undefeated. Freshmen annul it was the latter team that took the short end of the 5-4 score. The strong wide that blew across the courts made fast tennis out of the question and most the matches deteriorated into pat-ball...
...nothing is impossible, and with this high reward and world wide fame to be gained, inventors may yet find an ingenious solution...
While considerable secrecy at present attaches to all helicopter experiments, there is no doubt that the American Berliners are at least as far advanced in the art as any of their competitors. Mr. Berliner has previously won wide recognition by his inventions on the telephone transmitter and the gramophone and his great ingenuity is balanced by the mathematical ability...