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Last week Robert Marion Metcalf could congratulate himself on a big job well done, in the nick of time. A short, baldish, bustling American with a fringe-beard, he knows and loves medieval stained glass. Since 1938 he has been scurrying around France with a Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf...
When World War II threatened last August, Metcalf speeded up his tempo to a frenzy. He thought he might never get another chance. Before War began Sept. 1, the Metcalfs caught the first U. S.-bound boat. As the French Government again began to remove its irreplaceable stained glass panes and chances seemed even that the windows which had survived nearly 800 years of Europe's wars might not survive this one, Robert Metcalf's 14,000 slides were the only complete record of these Gothic treasures in existence. The slides will be housed at the Dayton (Ohio...
Tomorrow morning the class will meet at 9 o'clock in New Lecture Hall to hear College officers explain various problems connected with the year's studies. Alfred C. Hanford, Dean of the College; Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Library; and Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, will speak...
...assistants, Dr. John Raymond Johnson and Miss Marjory Metcalf Taylor, persuaded six men and four women to pedal furiously on a stationary bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces...
...yard breastroke--Won by Dick Hough (P); second Paul Metcalf (Y); third, Henry Kleppinger (Y). Time, 2 min. 22.2s. (Now World's record, former record of 2 min.32.5s. made by John Kasley, Michigan...