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Under fair water conditions four Varsity boats, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, rowed up to a flying start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
...Montreal, biggest city in Canada and next to Paris the largest French-speaking city in the world, 2,000,000 (again double the population) awaited them. So did mercurial, bouncy little Mayor Camillien Houde, anti-conscriptionist, Italophile (TIME, Feb. 20), a municipal executive with the verve of Manhattan's Mayor LaGuardia and the political slant of the late Huey Long. At the station, Queen Elizabeth delayed proceedings for a five-minute chat with kilted, Black Watch Captain S. S. T. Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen...
Before Peiping fell to the Japanese in 1937, two hallowed objects were smuggled out of its ancient Forbidden City. About as easy to smuggle as a couple of dentists' chairs, they were an eight-foot, ten-inch white jade Buddhist pagoda (largest jade piece in the world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk...
Harvey Taylor, chairman of the Jubilee Committee, stated yesterday that from all indications this looks as though it would turn out the largest dance ever to be given by a Harvard Freshman class. Besides the 250 girls with their escorts, about 150 Yardlings will probably attend as stags...
Definite statements from the three largest undergraduate courses yesterday indicated that frequenters of the cram parlors will be at a disadvantage in the coming final examinations...