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...much-abused phrase, "in the interests of science", which prompts that last highball and the extra pressure on the accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached...
James Elmer Barrett, of Leominster, was elected Second Marshal of the class. A graduate of Worcester Academy, he was a letterman on the football team for three years, and captain this fall, leading Harvard to its second victory in the last two seasons...
...students who began practice teaching last week under these arrangements, 4 are undergraduates, the remainder being students regularly enrolled in the Graduate School of Education. Eight of the practice teachers are women, 13 are men. English leads among the subjects taught, claiming eight of the group, three men and five women. In mathematics there are two men and one woman; in science there are three men. Other subjects taught are French, history, and commerce. The practice teachers are distributed this year in the high schools of Arlington, Cambridge, Belmont, Watertown. Newton, Brookline, Somerville, Chelsea, and Medford...
Before the exhibition, the fencers will dine at the Harvard Club. Among those competing are Rene Peroy, Robert Grasson, Joseph Levis, Lieutenant Stephen Conroy, E. H. Lane '24 and E. L. Lane '24. Coach Peroy was a member of the Olympic fencing team last year, and he has been National Foils Champion for three consecutive years in the past. Robert Grasson, Yale fencing coach, who is reputed to be the best in the country, will meet Peroy in three bouts...
Levis is another of last year's Olympic team, having won the National Foils Championship for 1928-1929. F. S. Righeimer Jr. 1L was captain of the Yale team in 1929, in which year he not only won the National Epee Championship but he also took third place in the National Foils Championship bouts. The Lane brothers are probably the best fencers that Harvard has ever...