Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England needs a Dr. Johnson. The doughty dogmatist who so conclusively laid the Cock Lane ghost could find in modern London hoaxes worthy of his bludgeon. In the interests of science, and of circulation, the Daily Sketch published pictures of spirit faces hovering over the Armistice Day celebration. All was deliciously serene until some clay-souled materialist noticed a remarkable likeness between the dim faces and those of Battling Siki, Jimmy Wilde, and other gentlemen of very earthly complexions. The Sketch has now denounced the photographs, but Conan Doyle and other highsouled enthusiasts have sprung to their defense...
Many Harvard men who went to the boat races at New London last year found that the same regulation was strictly enforced then, and many men suffered in consequence of their carelessness...
This afternoon at 5 o'clock in Amphitheatre C at the Medical School Professor Archibald Vivian Hill of University College. London, will give a lecture open to students of the University and the general public. Professor Hill's subject will be "The Recovery After Muscular Activity...
...either go through Springfield and Hartford or turn off at Worcester and go to New London and thence down the shore to New Haven. Both ways are about the same distance, but it is expected, that the New London route will be less crowded. According to the Superintendent of the Connecticut State Police, Mr. J. M. Hurley, when reached at Hartford by long distance telephone yesterday, the road from New London is now in good condition and the detours, that were necessary at the time of the Harvard-Yale races last June have been climinated...
...other route is as follows: Turn to left at Worcester around Hotel Bancroft, and go through Auburn, Webster, Thompson, Putnam, and Plainfield to New London. Follow the shore route to New Haven...