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...Conn., April 6.--Announcement of the six men who will compete in the Olympic trials to be held in the Harvard Stadium beginning June 14 was made yesterday by the Yale track management. The entries will be Captain M. K. Douglas in the mile; G. W. Chapman, C. W. Gage, and B. M. Morton, members of the relay team; W. A. Comins in the broad jump; and S. S. Scholpp in the pole vault...
...Ruyland family. She controls the mill town of Habersham and all the Ruylands' interests there. She is a benevolent despot who gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having her own way. The new woman is Fredericka Gage, who marries Kennion Ruyland, Augusta's grandnephew. Since Fredericka will not be dominated, the fight begins. In the end-after a lawsuit, a suicide, much biting talk and a dramatic strike in the Ruylands' factory- Fredericka wins. It is an exciting novel that moves swiftly, without faltering...
...finishing scarcely a hair's breadth behind Chapman of Yale, with a time which was less than a fifth of a second slower than the world's record,--3 minutes 22 4-5 seconds. Yale won the race, as had been expected, with its veteran team of Norton, Geilfuss, Gage, and Chapman; but in pushing them so hard, the University quartet exceeded the hopes of its most ardent supporters...
...that year Lieutenant John Barker wrote down for his own amusement his keenly critical observations of the famous events at Concords, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, his opinions, often expressed with biting sarcasm, of General Gage, Colonel Smith and Colonel Clark, and his caustic comments on Yankee and British general staffs alike. There by he provided a contemporary historical document of exceedingly great value...
...Weston Gage Thomas 4E.S. of Middletown, Ohio, has been appointed to complete the membership of the Student Committee, which will assist in arrangements for the tribute to President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot '55 on his birthday March 20. The Student Committee will meet in the near future to discuss preliminary plans...