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...privilege of using the athletic equipment. Football games are the chief source of revenue for the H. A. A. and the proceeds are used to help support other forms of athletics. The stadium receipts, however are not used for the entire upkeep of other sports but merely sustain the heaviest losses incurred by crew and other non-paying activities...
...unchurched of educated communities in an increasingly unchurchlike world, Dr. Fosdick has caused to be raised on the banks of the magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence to surrounding multitudes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has set in its tower 72 bells, world's largest and heaviest carillon. (The Park Avenue Baptist, predecessor of Riverside Church, had only 53.) Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium...
...better able to make a choice than when the races started, the selection committee knows only that Enterprise is best in a breeze of five to ten miles per hour, Weetamoe from ten to fourteen, Yankee from fourteen up. Yet this scale is not completely accurate: Enterprise, with her heaviest mast stepped in, heeled over to an 18-mi. breeze and scooted past the old Resolute in an early test on Long Island Sound. Weetamoe has beaten Enterprise in light air. Whirlwind, prettiest looking of all, will be changed a lot before the final tests beginning...
Last week there congregated in Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
Meanwhile, what about the Englishman who has no money to "send abroad." who cannot escape the heaviest taxes on earth? A comparison of what British and U. S. income taxpayers pay is sufficiently astonishing...