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...announced exultantly last week that British Columbia had closed a deal with the Dominion Government to take over Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331 sq. mi. will become, next to Quebec, the largest in Canada, more than ten times as big as New York State. From maps of Canada will disappear the colorful Yukon Territory, made famous by the discovery of gold in 1896 and the hairy-chested poems of Robert William Service...
This is the largest number of applications that has over been made, whereas at the same time the number of rooms available for new men has been lass than usual. Because of the large number of upperclassmen who applied this year, the proportion of acceptances of new Freshmen is necessarily smaller than in former years. Over 70 per cent of the places in the House next year will be occupied by Juniors and Seniors...
...Hindenburg" was the largest airship ever built, being 811 feet in length and having a gas volume of 7,063,0000 cubic feet. Its weight was 200 tons. The American ships "Akron" and "Macon" were both 785 feet long. The "Akron" crashed in a storm off New Jersey in 1933, causing the death of 73 people. The "Macon" fell off California in 1935, only losing 2 lives...
...union struggle. Stockton, Calif., about 150 miles from the sea but connected with San Francisco Bay by a deep water channel, cans and ships the fruits and vegetables of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there...
Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following...