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...home announced her engagement to your best buddy who stayed behind to go to the local junior college. Before you dive off Weeks Bridge, come to the CRIMSON comp introductory meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight. See if the distractions of Harvard and Cambridge, as seen by a CRIMSON comper, don't help you survive. Then jump off the bridge...
...began with a letter to the Church Times, signed by four clergymen and four laymen, among them such prominent Anglican names as Deacon Hugh Ross Williamson, Church Architect J. Ninian Comper and Poet John Betjeman. The "proposed United Christian Rally," they wrote, "has filled us with misgiving . . . We . . . think that the participation of the Church of England may give the . . . impression that the Roman Catholics are the only religious body which defends the full Catholic faith. Whatever may be the intention of the organizers, the effect can hardly fail to be an emphasis on the 'churches' with...
Smallest, Cheapest. It took Bert Hinkler 15½-days, cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...
...charming work, was played with great fire and passion. Considerable improvement was found in the tone of the oboe over what has been heard before, which contributed not a little to the general. As regards the Eroica, the writer certainly never heard a better performance. So perfectly was the comper's idea expressed that toward the close of the second movement the intensity of feeling became almost painful. The scherzo, following this, makes so much of a contrast that it hardly seems in keeping with the rest of the symphony. The fifth symphony of Beethoven presents a much better example...