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...Bennington College's beret-wearing President Robert Devore Leigh, a quiet but prolific speechmaker, entered a banquet hall in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel by way of an anteroom full of books, charts, photographs, machines-all concerned with the improvement of voice technique; sat down to eat with 500 members of the earnestly convening National Association of Speech Teachers; then said to them: "I doubt whether more than ten persons can get together and do much in advancing ideas or thought. ... I wonder if the teachers of speech might not be more helpful to humanity if they taught silence...
...officer of the deck on the U. S. S. Bennington one night in the early '90s cruising in the vicinity of Barbados when a school of flying fish flew over the bridge. Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom. A few minutes later the engineer officer on watch called up through the voice tube that several fish had dropped through a ventilator into the fireroom and the firemen were heating their shovels to cook a late fish supper...
Investigating railroading for a Bennington (Vt.) college report, Sophomore Mary Harriman, daughter of Union Pacific Railroad's Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, toured U. P.'s Omaha engine shops for three days, served as a stewardess on a U. P. day-coach to Cheyenne...
...Varsity summary: HARVARD PRINCETON McGowan, Heckel, l.f. r.f., Appel, Scofield Lowman, Shirk, r.f. l.f., Vruwink, Hill Gray, Herrick, c. c., Sauter, Scofield White, Lupien, l.g. r.g., Fallon, Woodward Struck, Lupien, r.g. l.g., Bennington, Fallon...
Score -- Harvard 52, Princeton 38. Goals--Lowman 8, Struck 4, Herrick 3, White 3, Gray 2, McGowan, Shirk, Vruwink 4, Appel 4, Bennington 2, Woodward 2, Sauter Scofield. Fouls--White 3, Lowman 2, Heckel 2, Lupien, Vruwink 3, Appel 2, Scofield 2, Hill, Sauter. Woodward. Referee--McNulty...