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...mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand in his pocket, produced a red handkerchief and waved it, once; the Yale shell went up; Yale men leaned shrieking out of observation cars, danced wildly on the float as the boats crossed the line-Yale, Penn, Columbia. The prophets had been right...
...most significant financial incident last week was the quiet withdrawal of the $100,000,000 bankers' loan to Italy. J. P. Morgan & Co. last fall headed a syndicate of 1,000 banks to float this loan, which was made immediately upon the arrangement of the Italian debt settlement. Enthusiasts oversubscribed the bonds at 94%, but their subsequent sale has been most lethargic. Last week the bankers withdrew their support, and the quotations dropped at once to around 89 with very little turnover...
...Titanic disaster aroused the nations to institute an annual patrol from April to July along the northern steamer lanes, whither the icebergs float after they break from their Greenland glaciers. The U. S. took up the burden, many nations sharing the expense. So efficient has been this search for and report of wandering bergs that not a life has been lost since the patrol...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...
...usher in the 1926 season was composed of 18 freshmen on the Leviathan. Assistant Coaches A. L. Hobson '24 and C. S. Heard '25 were in the two bow seats, while at the coxswain's post was a moving picture camera. Moving picture men also crowded on the Newell float, filming all the crews that went out. The scene was completed by an aeroplane which hovered over the river for some time...