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...distractions from his recent troubles; the officers, continually quarreling, added to the gloom. The captain, who by all standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast; all hands were escaping by boat; the captain, before clearing, locked his supercargo into the sinking steward-room...
Those men who remain on the Board from last year are: Harry Schulsky, Bernard Somans '25, J. E. Stockes '26, H. Rapp '26, N. A. Cobb, Solomon Fishman, Alger Hiss...
Last week precisely the crazed medieval orgy of Devildom described above was reproduced in modern Hamburg when rust ate through a commonplace-looking tank and something began to escape with a faint hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have...
...Walter Hastings Hall, Alger Hiss CL. and W. E. Hoagland 2L, will have posts; in Westmorly, D. S. Byers 2G, and G. A. Morgan, Jr. 2G, instructor in Philosophy; in Morris Hall, Professor Joshua Whatmough and Hamilton Heard '28, entered in the Business School for next year' in Hamilton Hall, Bronson Goddard 3L and F. H. Sullivan 1G.B...
Plans are already under way for the continuation of the activities of the International Council for next year, according to Hiss. An unofficial delegate may attend the model Congress for international delegates to be held next April at Amherst College, but there will be no representatives in any official capacity, it was announced...