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...recently provided its members with such an agreeable opportunity. In arranging such a dinner and in inviting eminent speakers, the officers are to be highly commended, for they are rounding out the program of opportunities already offered by emphasizing the social aspect, an integral function of any club, which hitherto at the Union has not always received sufficient attention...
...indeed he succeeded in the fifth inning in holding the gentlemen to one run. In the next frame, however, the upholder of Harvard's journalistic honor knocked him out of the box to the tune of six home runs, four triples and three bases on balls. Joe Dube, hitherto paid by the lampoon as umpire, was then called to pitch the remainder of the one-sided game...
...Atlantic-crossing NC-4. Back in Manhattan last week, Captain Stevens told how he aiid Hinton, the latter suffering continually from malaria, flew from Manaos, on the Rio Negro, up the Rio Branco to the Rio Uraricoera, to the Rio Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning every few days to Dr. Rice with fresh pictures of what lay before him. A radio operator, John Swanson, also flew in the plane. His makeshift stations erected...
...Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time. Yet, this summer, U. S. navy fliers propose to go from San Diego to Honolulu, something over 2,000 miles-at least 20 hours-in a single hop. And Frenchmen propose to capture the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for a continuous Paris-New York flight...
Sixteen months have passed since a hitherto little-known Senator?Thomas J. Walsh of Montana?emerged with dust-laden documents, which the public was led to believe contained the fingerprints of monstrous robbers...