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...With a view to determining the best method of developing the ship scrapping industry in the United States," so runs a dispatch from Washington, "the Paymaster General of the Navy has invited representative groups of financiers, steel operators, shipbuilders, scrap dealers, chambers of commerce, and editors of trade papers to meet this week at the Philadelphia Navy Yard." It is not too big a meeting when the tonnage involved runs into the millions. Part of it will be actual scrapping, we presume, as when Mr. Ford offers to wave the magic acetylene torch and turn gun-turrets into livers. Part...
Much as we regret that the crew has been deprived of the University daily we can not help noting here our pride in the fact that anyone should be so angry ("very angry" were the words in the dispatch) as to send a telegram (paid in advance) all the way to Cambridge on that account...
...newspapers of April 4 a Cambridge (Mass.) dispatch reported the forming "at Harvard University" of an Intercollegiate Liberal League. Harvard men particularly and the public generally are entitled to know just what indorsemen of this movement by the Harvard authorities is conveyed by the words "at Harvard University...
...injuries to neck and finger that placed him at an emphatic disadvantage that makes his exhibition the more to be respected. The last minute advance to the spectacular Buell Macomber score has been all but set to poetry in the last twenty-four hours. The neatness and dispatch that has always characterized Buell's play and the speed exhibited by Fitts seemed to galvanize a dispirited attack into action. It was the Irony of fate that Roper saw his charges robbed of victory by a forward pass that outwitted his secondary defense. The Princeton back over whose head the pass...
...University Debating Council received on Saturday a dispatch from the University of Washington announcing the selection of three men to represent the Western University in the East-West debate which is to be held here on Friday evening, May 21. Wendell W. Black, Floyd Toomey and Earl C. Nelson are the debaters chosen to make the transcontinental trip. These three men were on the University of Washington Pacific Coast championship team, which this year defeated the University of Oregon, Leland Stanford and the University of British Columbia, receiving in the decisions 14 out of a possible 18 judges vote. Washington...