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People who bemoan the fact that college hockey is too clean had their answer in three games Saturday night. No less than 44 exiles were given out in the clashes between Harvard-Princeton, Dartmouth-Yale, and Dartmouth Freshman - Y a l e Freshman...
...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...
...active alumni have approved the idea of starting a capital fund, the income of which will in time be used for the support of the university's athletic program, thus severing the "vicious connection between football gate receipts and athletic expenditures." This proposal has been hailed by those who bemoan the overemphasis placed on football in paying coaches high salaries, arranging all-star schedules to draw the paying customers and building huge stadia on a commercialized scale. Other institutions should follow Harvard's example, they argue...
...weight events, it has become traditional to bemoan the loss of Dean and Healey, but the outlook is not quite so dismal as it was before the Tri-Meet. Cahners' first place in the 35-pound weight throw against Dartmouth and Cornell give the weight men the first real encouragement they have had in many months. Millard in the shot-put is another prospective point-winner, and the versatile Emile Dubiel, who carried off points in his Freshman year at every event from broad jump to javelin-throw, can be counted on for a capable performance in the javelin-throw...
...ordered all floors, ceilings, windows, doors and utensils scrubbed, disinfected and sterilized. He ordered all food supplies destroyed, all drinking water retested. Finally he ordered every doctor, nurse, orderly and other hospital employe examined, found no significant disease. All that Dr. McCormack and experts could do was to bemoan the mysterious mightiness of germs and viruses and poisons...