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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard crew, materially strengthened by the return of Captain Geoffrey Platt '27 to the number 5 seat, pulled steadily away from the second eight. The time is especially impressive considering the sharp cross wind which kicked up a considerable chop in the lower Basin. Two years ago the 1928 Freshman crew made exactly the same time in a mile and three-quarters time trial, but on that occasion conditions were much more favorable. The second crew, stroked by C. McK. Norton '29. finished far behind but made fairly good time nevertheless...
...races of the Invitation Begatta which were held yesterday in the rough water of the lower basin resulted in victories for the first and third Freshman eights. The first 1930 boat was rowed by the same eight men who will row in the Freshmen triangular races between Harvard M. I. T. and Pennsylvania next Saturday...
...import-export houses information circulated last week, that the German delegation at Geneva has been instructed to sound out the U. S. delegation upon the possibility of an understanding between the U. S. Administration and the German chemical and other trusts. Prospectively the question will be asked whether lower U. S. tariffs can possibly be obtained on certain German goods, in return for favors of an equal value to U. S. businessmen from the German trusts...
...Venerable Robert Henry Charles, 71, Archdeacon of Westminster, erudite translator of the Ethiopia Book of Jubilees: "To find one's pleasure in a sport which consists of torturing and killing a defenseless animal bespeaks at best a thoughtless person whose outlook on life is immeasurably lower than that of the wolf or the tiger...
...Last week the German admiralty announced having touched a spot lower in the world than any spot recorded?a spot 34,416 feet below sea level. With line and sinker, the cruiser Emden had found it, in the so-called "Japanese Ditch," running from Japan down to the Philippine Islands. The greatest ocean depth previously known was 32,644 feet, off the east coasts of Japan...