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...hardly impressed the College with their presence. But still more amazing is Technology's unawareness of Harvard's unawareness. Confident that all good Harvard men spend several hours a day returning their insults, the engineers annually teach their new freshmen that the University and the Institute are engaged in mortal combat. This shadow-boxing has gone on as long as living Tech men remember...
Tech men naively believe that the boys at the "Country Club" (that's us) refer to them disdainfully as the "plumbers down the river." To learn that their mortal enemies have rarely been guilty of a more complete or nasty comment than "Technology? Good school," would be heartbreaking, but the myth is as yet undisturbed. Their continuous guerrilla warfare, consisting of such minor pranks as neckties draped around John Harvard and abortive attempts to weld the gates, has gone unnoticed. Last year, however, Rochester's abduction did attract some attention, but Harvard failed to grasp the idea that...
...Half-Moon Street" by the Englishman, Barre Lyndon. A scientist finds the way to immortality by transferal of glands. To carry on his experiments he is forced to rob and kill. In addition he falls in love only to find that immortality denies him the love of a mortal woman. During the action of the play he is planning a another robbery-murder to get the necessary glands. Considerable suspense is built up with Scotland Yard and a few minor crooks floating around. The lead is especially well acted by Edwin Pettet, founder-director of the company, who does...
...mark of the Thibaults is a strong, blocky jaw and a flair for dominance. At first there are three-Jacques, his older brother Antoine, their widowed father. Father Oscar is a pious, pompous, severe, uncomprehending and walled-in old man who hides in his heart a mortal fear of death, who snatches at straws of immortality by devoting himself to good works. Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs...
Nelson received a head wound at the Nile which he was convinced was mortal. But he survived for Trafalgar seven years later. There, just west of Gibraltar, 27 British ships bore down on 33 of the enemy in two columns, one led by Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Collingwood, the other by Nelson himself aboard his 100-gun flagship Victory. Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally...