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Contrary to general belief, the royal properties on which the Civil List is virtually a token payment of income belong not to the British Government but solely and legally to the head of the Royal House of England. They include mines, forests, farmlands, beaches and rivers the length & breadth of Britain as well as the King's "rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides...
During the week the first eight has shown some improvement over their form in the Princeton race and should be able to take the Lion shell by a length or more. The Jayvees are expected to win by about an equal length...
...Freshman lacrosse team completely swamped M.I.T. yesterday afternoon on the home field, by a score of 15-3. Even Henry W. Riecken, goalie for the Yardlings, couldn't resist the yearning to tally a point. Leaving his cage wide open in the middle of the game, he dashed the length of the field to slam the ball into the enemy...
...book-length biography of Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing...
Ever since Robert Maynard Hutchins became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...