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...James E. Lough, Dean at New York University for eighteen years, and originator and organizer of the first "University Afloat" in 1926, will again direct the educational program of the Cruise. Dr. Mary S. Crawford, Dean of Women at the University of Southern California, has been appointed to one of the floating college's administrative positions for the year 1931-32. The courses are to be conducted by a faculty of professors and instructors from Yale, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas, and similar institutions...
...After breaking the record, one June day last year in Lake Windermere, Major Segrave forced Miss England II to 101.11 m. p. h., struck a water-logged tree branch, hurtled to his death. Last week the reconditioned Miss England II carried Racer Kaye Don 100 m. p. h. on Lough Neagh, Ireland, in a trial preparatory to attempting the world's record at Buenos Aires before the Prince of Wales. The sea-flea (outboard hydroplane) record: 50.9 m. p. h., by Ray Pregenzer of Antioch...
Died. Baron O'Neill, 89. head of the O'Neills of County Antrim, Ireland; in Eralerstown, County Derry, Ireland. Oldsters said they heard the wail of the banshee on the shores of Lough Neagh, the night before his death...
...from Maine: harrse, larf. Bostonian: hoss, lough. Texan: hawse, lawf...
...royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered Tokyo police and engaged in a street brawl. The U. S. consul, irate, had thereafter refused to receive Dean Lough of the Floating Unversity. The disorderly ones were virtually deported. Their names: Duncan MacMartin, Enos Richardson, Wendall C. Goddard of New York; Harry R. Addison of Cleveland; Frank T. Morgan of New Haven, Conn.; George E. Tierney of Philadelphia...