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...Charles River last evening and reflected on the possibilities of a beautiful Harvard if grass and God were allowed half a chance. In the smoke of autumn some of the grossness of the Harvard architecture was lost and the fire warden's caboose atop Eliot almost disappeared in mist. A few blades of grass between the Houses would have reduced their architectural wranglings...
...court circular, did the official communiqué of the Bayreuth Festival last June announce the season's beginning. Rehearsals began. Was the Maestro still suffering from shock at being manhandled by Fascists in Bologna (TIME, June 22)? It seemed not. Reported the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten: "A gray mist surrounds the 'beloved hill in Bayreuth' as the orchestral instrumentalists make their pilgrimage to this season's rehearsals . . . [Toscanini's] green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises his stick . . . sings with the music...
Wind and sun are the only efficacious dispellers of fog. But to dissipate thin shallow fogs such as rise over a harbor the warm morning after a still, clear night, Professor McAdie suggests that fireboats squirt their streams at the mist. "Electrified spray from these mighty nozzles would not only wash a channel through the fog, but cause the fog droplets to coalesce and agglomerate and drop as a drizzling rain. The squirting would not be very expensive...
...leading crew. As the distance to the finish flags dwindled, however, the Juniors gradually pulled into the lead, and although continually pressed by the Senior boat, coasted across the finish with ample leeway over the 1931 men, while the second-year boat was lost in the grey mist...
Columbia paddled in a chilly mist along the Harlem River to the starting line. Macrae Sykes was stroking. He was nervous in his freshman races last year but this year has shown a smooth rhythm, easy to pick up and follow. The third boat in the race was Pennsylvania, whose lightness Russell ("Rusty") Callow, once coach of great Washington crews, defended by saying: "I never cared much for very big oarsmen. This is the best material I've had at Penn." With twelve special buses trailing them along the bank the three sprinted away with Columbia in the lead...