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Died. Kirk Munroe, 79, boys' author (The Flamingo Feather, Through Swamp and Glade, Campmates, Raftmates, Canoemates - 30 others) ; aide in exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando...
Colloredo's premature entree into upperclass rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather...
...Excelsior last week voluntarily took this view, announced it would suppress all news of crime. Good Mexicans thought this action well befitted the daily whose circulation (61.500) and influence are the largest in the land. Well pleased was Editor Manuel L. Barragan to be able to reprint a feather for Excelsior's sombrero, a letter from President Ortiz Rubio, concluding: ". . . It would be desirable if all of Mexico's press would second the noble effort of Excelsior...
...four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston as Dartmouth Carnival Queen and the prettiest girl there?a title that was another feather in the cap of smart junior and Phi Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing on the ice called a moccasin dance, discreeter dances indoors; skating, tobogganing, skiing went on next morning, but the most interesting event was the slalom race. Down from the top of Balch...
...certain U. S. poultry spent the week in special quarters and an almost continuous state of excitement at the 41st Consecutive Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, Inc. Plymouth Rocks, Minorcas, Wyandottes, Pouters, Muscovy ducks, Bourbon Reds-8,000 birds of fine feather, they heard the remarks of fanciers who pointed fingers at them saying, "Look at that back. . . . Ain't she got style, though!" They were fed from little bowls containing mash. No lights disturbed them in the early morning; their coops were curtained to keep out draughts...