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James William Davenport Seymour '17.--"The Barrel Organ," by Alfred Noyes...
Plans were definitely formed last night for a New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. E. F. Davenport of Brown, S. T. Brady of Yale, J. S. Stevens of Springfield, G. H. Stebbins of Technology, and P. Bradley '16 met at the Varsity Club and drew up a preliminary constitution and set of rules and regulations. The association is to be directed by an executive committee, on which each college sending a full team to the annual meet will have one member. This committee will elect a president, secretary, treasurer, and a manager. P. Bradley '16, of Lincoln, was elected manager...
...Wireless Club proved that it was following in the trail of "Preparedness" when yesterday morning at 1.45 o'clock it received the Washington Birthday message which was sent from 'Davenport, Iowa. The message was relayed from this station to that of the Club. From the Club it was sent to the Boy Scout master in Lexington, who read it with appropriate ceremonies on the Lexington Battlefield...
Significant in the movement to prepare for possible war is the experiment which the Amateur Relay League is to make late tonight in the wireless transmission of a message from Davenport, Iowa, to all parts of the country. The message will be relayed entirely by amateur operators and copies will be delivered to the mayors of all cities which have stations and the governors of all the states, the War Department having co-operated to make this possible. The message will be relayed from Cambridge by the members of the Harvard Wireless Club to Lexington to be read...
...decided to arrange for speakers, and to work to promote interest in wireless in the college. Arrangements were explained for the sending of a Washington's Birthday message, starting at Davenport, Iowa, on midnight of February 21, and being relayed from station to station till it reaches the Harvard station. Then it will be sent to Lexington where it will be received and a copy delivered to the Boy Scout leader, who will read it on the historic Lexington battlefield...