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Last night Coach Mitchell was undecided as to who would shoulder the pitching burden for the University. Either MacHale or Devens will be on the mound for Harvard...
...call upon for duty at any time. The quartet will also be about the hardest hitting pitching staff that Mitchell has gathered together for some time. Because of his exceptional ability to crack the ball Samborski is likely to be used in the outfield while not performing on the mound. The other half of the battery question seems far from being solved, however. Batchelder has just reported after a short rest following the hockey season, and the chances that he will get the call behind the bat on the opening day seem pretty bright. Mitchell has a great array...
Angora, capital of new Turkey, formed the base of the Hittite Expedition of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. From there to Alishar is a day's journey by train and horse. At Alishar, rare and well-preserved examples of Hittite culture were unearthed in a mound twelve layers deep, one dead city atop its dead predecessor. Out of the dusty ruins were dug instruments for which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry...
...Alpha group there was a double tie for the top position, while in the Beta league three teams claimed the championship: the Kappa Sigmas won the play-off on the pitching of J. D. Vail Jr. '32, their star hurler, who is expected to be on the mound tonight if he recovers from a slight illness...
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson...