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...scenery was excellent, and the setting in the last act would have been a notable feature in the production if its filmsiness had not destroyed all the illusion And the dawn which Mr. Belasco made creep up imperceptibly, "came up like thunder", if not more so. In contrast with this hasty dawn, the thunderstorm in act two was realistic in its slow approach...
Meanwhile Brown had been holding his crew to a slightly lower stroke, and when the seconds dropped the beat after their spurt, the first eight began to creep up again. All the way down the lower Basin the two crews held their own with a slight margin favoring the seconds. A hundred yards from the finish only a few feet separated the crews as the two coxswains called for the final spurts. The thirds finished about four lengths behind...
...have suspected this particular youth and the other who creep up behind one to snatch the book over-due at the desk of almost everything but never before of humor. Let us be thankful for small blessings...
...Spitz got the jump on the other runners in this event, and raced neck and neck down the first straight-away several yards ahead of the rest. Wharton slowed up a bit on the turn, however, allowing Spitz to take the lead. On the home stretch Bardes began to creep away from the rest, and, fighting all the way, finally overhauled and passed Wharton a few yards from the tape, and finishing shoulder to shoulder with Spitz. Not more than a foot separated the three men as they crossed the line...
Professor R. A. Daly '93 will give a lecture this evening at 8, on "Continental Creep and the Origin of Mountains" at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. Professor Daly has been connected with the Geological department of the University since 1895, and has been Professor of Geology since 1912. He is an authority on igneous rocks...