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...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
With Pilot Ralph Wien, the Vicar-General took Father Walsh up for a jaunt. The plane, a Diesel-powered Bellanca, circled the field, dove, crashed, killed pilot and priests. A gift of the Marquette League of New York, which has spent $750,000 upon missions for Indians of the southwest U. S. and of Alaska, the Marquette was intended to enable Father Delon to visit in three weeks missions scattered over 500,000 sq. mi., a trip that formerly required a year's travel by dog team...
Practice sessions will be held daily at the Stanford Stadium prior to the game, in order to accustom the players to their new surroundings after the long jaunt, and also to allow them to become partially acclimated. The Dartmouth trip has been planned with the utmost care by Athletic Director Harry Hennage, and Football Manager Jack Reno '31, in order that the team will be in as fine condition as possible when they arrive...
Last summer Father Hubbard. as he had done for three years prior, took four football players into Alaska for a long geological walk to the end of the Aleutian Islands. Their jaunt took them into the hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched their tents, found in their subsequent explorations great spurts of steam issuing from cracks in the craters' icy floors. They put a pot of beans over one of the steam streams, baked them for dinner. Another characteristic of the region which made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava...
Return of Moses. Senator Johnson's forces-for-delay last week received support from two new quarters. Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, potent president pro tempore of the Senate returned from a European jaunt to declare: "What I don't understand is all the rush in putting the treaty through the Senate. I haven't heard of any power that is going to build a great navy between now and December. The Senate is pretty jaded to tackle so important a subject...