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...Shoemaker says: "By raising the bird and dropping it suddenly it Avas made to flutter as it was going down; and the flying birds, seeing it, would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net would be sprung. At once there would be a mass of fluttering, struggling pigeons, with heads protruding through the meshes. The fowler and his assistants would rush to the massacre, which was the crushing of the head of each individual bird between the thumb and forefinger...
...similar yet as opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics...
Left End Baker, leading Conference scorer, ran 30 yards to a touchdown; Right Halfback Hanley got one too, and Northwestern's unbeaten Wildcats, sticking mostly to line plays, drew nearer the Big Ten championship by beating Minnesota...
Next summer the students in the Summer School are to be assigned rooms in the Yard Dormitories and will take their meals at the Harvard Union. This will bring the whole Summer School in much closer touch with the rest of the University plant, nearer to the Widener Library, the various laboratories, the lecture halls, and to the offices of the Graduate School of Education...
...visitor, if he comes from the down-river side of Memorial Drive toward the gate, will encounter first the Master's house. This building will be joined to the main portion of the House at the rear. Next to the Master's house, but nearer the gate, the visitor comes upon a dormitory building of five stories, which becomes three-story in the portion flanking the gate. Entering the gate and moving toward the terrace, the visitor will see to his right a dormitory building joining the buildings on the drive to the central portion of the House...