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...Lightning), Phar Lap's death was sudden, frightful, mysterious. His trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
...Moines, Iowa, baseball team of the Western League: the opening game of its home season; at night, on a field lighted by huge projectors from 90-ft. towers; beating Wichita, 13 to 6. Des Moines made four errors, Wichita none. Said Hugrie Nielsen, Des Moines shortstop: "It's easier to hit a curve by electric light." Said Lee Keyser, president of the Des Moines club, who thought up night-baseball to draw the fans who could not get away in the afternoons: "It was splendid . . . glorious...
...openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound position that it is not for the United States, alone and of its own initiation, to effect a change in international law, whatever changes there may have been in the conditions that were responsible for such law. Fred K. Nielsen, former Solicitor for the State Department, is authority for the statement that such a change will not be made without an appropriate agreement with other nations...
Through some such means the salvation of American college education may be found. The danger of overcrowding, the tendency to "swamp" all of our great universities, which President Nielsen of Smith points out as one of the most alarming characteristics of education today, might be obviated by adopting this proposed Candian plan with a diametrically opposite object. The small colleges formed about the central university base would give the small-group, dormitory life which Stephen Leacock spoke of as the first prerequisite of a successful university, and for higher education there would still be the vast resources of the large...
...Tickets are now on sale at the box office of the Opera House. Caruso will sing the part of Canio in "Pagliacci," with Mme. Melis as Nedda, and possibly Antonio Scotti as Tonio. "Pagliacci" will be preceded by Wolf-Forrari's opera, "The Secret of Suzanne," in which Miss Nielsen and Scott will take part...