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...when one day shows a program in which major parts are rivalled by non-athletic competitions, the ideal of diversified interests, each with its proper emphasis, seems decidedly nearer...
...Where do you do your marketing?" he asked. "I always go to Wolfeboro," was the reply. "Isn't Ossipee nearer?" "Yes, I suppose it is a little nearer." "Isn't the road to Ossipee Just as good?" "Just as good." "Can't you do as well in Ossipee as in Wolfeboro?" "Just as well, I guess." "Well, why don't you go to Ossipee?" "I always go to Wolfeboro...
...Pierce '99, director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory. The club maintains a transmitting outfit of two types, one a vacuum tube transmitter of 10 watts power, known as the C-W type, with which they have communicated with Washington, D. C., New York, New Jersey, and stations nearer. It is planned to install a larger set of 50 watts power in connection with which they will have a radiophone. The usual receiving equipment with two stages of amplification has given good results, enabling the club to hear from points as far as the seventh district in Oregon. N. K. Fairbank...
...weather-vane, is about all that remains of the original Faneuil Hall in Boston. But Boston, unlike some other cities, retains a certain pride in its past, and the City has recently appropriated a sum of $150,000 to restore this "cradle of liberty" to something nearer its original countinence. The once-honored wells of the present structure are in large part to be torn down and carted away, and the old edifice that Samuel Adams knew will be reconstructed as accurately as possible...
...government has recently shown a regrettable tendency to resort to force and compulsion in dealing with refractory labor units. Such a policy will create nothing but discontent and will never bring a strained industrial system any nearer to an ultimate and highly necessary solution...