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...stick which is held in the right hand and jiggled; nine others are attached by a complicated system of wires and pulleys to nine chains which are worked separately by the left hand; the fourteenth is worked by the right foot, and it takes two men to operate the fifteenth, and largest. "The usual procedure," relates Mr. Swift, "is for the operator to start (jiggling) with his right hand, proceed down the scale with his left, bring his right foot into play, and nod his head for the two strong men to start ringing Bell No. 15." No tune results...
...Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
...exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works of art were made by monks in temples and sold at the doors to the people, who took them home as sacred relics...
Hallowell finished fifteenth in 1929 and seventh last year. If the Crimson leader shows equal improvement tomorrow he should match strides with McCluskey of Fordham, Barker of N. Y. U., and Chamberlain, individual winner from Michigan State last year. Harvard's last team victory came in 1912; in 1928 J. L. Reid '29 led the field for the Crimson...
...that early date the faculty was composed of a mere 11 members, while the students numbered 204. Of this latter number, 66 were registered in the, at that time, newly erected medical school, so that the four undergraduate classes boasted the munificent total of 138, less than one-fifteenth of the corresponding group today. An overwhelming majority of this number hailed from three states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. The other New England states had scattered representation, and New York barely entered into the count...