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Last week ruddy-faced, lantern-jawed Captain Ralph E. Fleischer, onetime head of the U. S. Army School for Bakers & Cooks at Fort Slocum, N. Y., marched stiffly into the Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. There a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major formally charged Captain Fleischer with violating the 93rd, 95th and 96th Articles...
Also I am glad at my heart to note that the shy Captain Stevens of recent Stratosphere fame will talk in the Geography Building on Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. The subject of his lecture being: "Exploration in the Stratosphere"; and will be accompained by lantern slides. But his secretary tells me admission is only by ticket and there be only a few left. But I think I did impress her enough that she will save...
...churches the object most admired by the public-at-large, the tower of Boston's Trinity Church, was not designed by Richardson at all. It was an adaptation by the slickest of exterior decorators, the late Stanford White, then a draughtsman in the Richardson office, of the lantern of Salamanca Cathedral, added when Trinity's builders announced that they were unable to execute Richardson's more original first design...
Last month Dr. von Grosse asked to have the world supply of protoactinium back for a while so that he could make more photographs. He took it into a darkroom illuminated only by the red glow of a photographic lantern, arranged his microscope and camera. In shaping the tungsten thread to which the protoactinium clung, he was a little too rough. The delicate element crumbled to invisible dust...
...whole piece seemed to be a reaction of one who was sore because one of the boys wasn't playing the game according to instructions. And of course the game we refer to is the rich man's game. --Ohio State Lantern...