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...positions are to be filled and the first place winner will be permitted to accompany the club on the Christmas vacation tour. As is the custom each year, the Instrumental Clubs make an extensive concert tour during the Christmas recess, visiting several large eastern and mid-western cities where they are entertained by prominent Harvard alumni after their concerts...
...ascertaining the strength of the Southerners will be afforded next Saturday when the Navy takes them on on its home field. Michigan, the team that probably will attract the most attention in these parts this fall and also furnish some of the toughest opposition, has followed the Big Ten custom of carding a double-header on the early Saturdays and will split up its squad and play games with both Ypsilanti and Dennison. The Ypsilanti game will be in the Yost Stadium and all the high schools in the state will be the guest of the university...
...McEwan, the new Crusader mentor, will make his debut to the Holy Cross fans today when he trots out his team against St. Bona-venture. Yale's students just registered on Thursday but they will see a football game today already for the Eli authorities departed from their usual custom and made up a nine game schedule for the Blue, getting Maine as the first opponent...
Ever since the appearance of "Wings", some years ago, it has become the custom in Hollywood to turn out a new, and of course more mammoth air thriller about once every six months. Following close upon the heels of "The Dawn Patrol", "Hell's Angels" has at last made its appearance with still larger adjectives and longer superlatives ringing forth in its praise from the publicity department. Not the least impressive of the much heralded features of this picture is that somehow or other the director, Howard Hughes, managed to spend some four millon dollars in the production, which ought...
Enough Wheat. Head of B. A. A. S. for 1930 was dignified Frederick Orpen Bower, 74, Regius professor of botany in the University of Glasgow. Contrary to the custom of B. A. A. S. presidents whose addresses usually last long enough to sum up the entire scientific field, Professor Bower limited his inaugural address to a review of the last 30 years' work in botany. Sir William Crookes (radiometer, Crookes' tube) told a meeting of the British Scientific Association in 1898 that, taking into consideration acre yield and population growth, wheat would be scarce enough in 30 years...