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...Fourteen cases of antiquities, part of the results of the Yale excavations during the past year at Doura-Europos in Mesopotamia, arrived at New Haven yesterday afternoon, according to a dispatch from Syria. These will be put on exhibition at the Yale gallery of fine arts during Commencement...
...college courses as German A, 1a, 1b, 1c, and the corresponding French courses, is deficient. Statistics regarding a recent Reading German examination, compiled by a member of the German Department, are evidence that neither of these beliefs is correct. Out of thirty-eight men who took the examination, only fourteen passed; all fourteen were qualified by their work in the courses which now satisfy the requirement in Reading German, to expect a passing mark. Of the remainder, not more than two had done in courses work of such quality that they might have expected to pass a Reading examination...
...Fourteen prizes in as many events have been donated by various Harvard Alumni, the discus being the only event for which there is no special award. Names of winners are inscribed on the cups, and pictures of these cups are given to each...
...view of the very earnest interest in the prohibition question prevalent among all sorts of conditions of persons, it is reasonable to assume that the complexion of the straw vote in fourteen leading American colleges and universities, conducted recently by the Harvard Crimson, is an honest reflection of the actual sentiment and conduct among attendants at those institutions of learning. With approximately half the student body in Ann Arbor ousting ballots, the expression there is distinctly emphatic and decisive and indicates, among other things, that anti-prohibition feeling in the State is not confined to big olties...
...McKee, financed by Oxford Paper Co., has worked for four years on new hybrid poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn...