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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...
Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...
...Chinese-controlled. Presiding at the dedication was Chancellor Wu Lei-Ch'uan, onetime Chinese vice-minister of education (1928-29) and now head of Yenching University. Strong is the spirit of nationalism in China, pleasing to Chinese Nationalists should be Yenching's Chinese executive. Meanwhile Dr. J. Leighton Stuart continues in control of administrative detail and academic routine. President since 1919, Dr. Stuart ably guided the university through the perplexities of China's troubled years; has now gladly welcomed Dr. Wu's advancement to titular leadership...
...lineup of the Harvard 1932 team against Browne and Nichols follows: l.e., W. F. Croskery; l.t., W. M. Crosby; l.g., D. P. Ketcham; c., R. M. Ayer; qr.g., J. M. Blake; r.t., A. S. Dane; r.e., C. W. Wickersham; q.b., W. E. Hutchins; l.h.b., D. R. Weir; r.h.b., T. J. McKay; f.b., B. Pool...
...second game under the regime of J. F. Carr '28 as coach of the booters was fast and hard throughout. Although the visitors made humerous offensive charges, they were stopped time and again by the excellent work of J. P. Faude '31, in the goal for Harvard...