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...this time of year the casual visitor to the College Yard--if there are casual visitors at this time of year--might easily be led to think that the old order hath changed and that all roads now lead to the Phillips Brooks House. Hither wend their way perplexed Freshmen seeking information; artful upperclassmen seeking Freshmen Handbooks, and vexed graduate students seeking rooms. Hither soon will turn the thrifty seeking text books at small expense. Soon will follow the hungry their mouths watering at the thought of refreshments which follow the receptions for Freshmen, Graduate students, Law students and others...
Martha Norelius swam a mile last week faster than any woman had ever done it before. Stop watches clicked as she kicked hither and thither over the 55-yard course of the Biltmore Shores Yacht Club at Massapequa, L. I. establishing five world's records...
...score civilians shot down by government troops, some of the Post's readers supposed that this meant the super-reporting of Novelist Lewis would not come off. Others were more hopeful, remembering that Mr. Lewis had been a reporter?in New Haven, Conn., in San Francisco, and hither and yon for the Associated Press?before ever he sold a novel; and that even now his literary technique is regarded by critics simply as superlative journalese. They fancied Sinclair Lewis could do as much with the aftermath of a brief city riot as most correspondents could do with a full-fledged...
...made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever, and the rules were amended to allow a first false break go unpenalized, while a second would cause the disqualification of the hurdler. To make the hurdles better able to stand...
...move the object to be photographed to the best possible location for his purpose, or to otherwise arrange the lighting, an operation which could only be trusted to some one with his professional background. The results of Professor Kennedy's work as seen at the Fogg Museum reveal possibilities hither to for the most part unrealized...