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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soccer candidates will be called out by Coach John F. Carr '28 next Wednesday and Thursday at 3 o'clock in the Dillon Field House. Competitions for manager will be open to both Sophomores and Freshmen, and will begin at the same time that the team candidates report. The usual squad of about a hundred is expected to be slightly larger this year and the prospects are bright for the coming season with only the two last year's fullbacks. Captain William Wemple '34 and Richard M. Gummere '34 lost by graduation. With just these two men missing...
Today's scrimmage looms as one of the most important events in early practice since the coaches will get their first real look at the team in action. Faults which have not shown up as yet will get aired and the grid mentors can begin putting together a tentative team in preparation for more intense work for the first game...
...These three hurried to Washington to begin their job of peacemaking. The United Textile Workers complained that mill owners were overworking the "stretch-out," were refusing to bargain collectively. The employers complained that they could not afford to meet the union's demand of 40 hours pay for 30 hours work...
Long have New Yorkers been accustomed to seeing each summer begin with some such headline as DITMARS SAILS TO HUNT BUSHMASTER, end with DITMARS BACK; NO BUSHMASTER. It was, therefore, a metropolitan milestone last week when word flashed from the Caribbean that the 25-year search of Dr. Raymond Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's famed reptile man. was over at last. His bushmaster, a great snake whose bite is the deadliest in the American tropics, had been caught by a white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow...
...absinthe, bad for men, is definitely worse for women. A famed and horrible exhibit in Europe is Buveuse d'Absinthe, painted by Belgium's late great Felicien Rops (1833-98) and showing a girl in the sodden stage of an absinthe drunk (see cut, p. 21). Most absinthe neophytes begin by taking too much, enjoy a brief stage of exhilaration (often quarrelsome), then lapse into an absinthe stupor, followed by sleep. They wake up with a terrific pounding headache which lasts all the next day and is punctuated by fits of vomiting...