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...opportunities that are open to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford are boundless. Normally he becomes a member of one of the twenty odd colleges which make up the university. The average college has only two hundred members; so he finds himself in a social group that is small enough to assure him the opportunity of gaining a personal acquaintance with his fellows. The bulk of these will naturally be English and Scotch, but he will find among them students from the British colonies, and many others from the continent of Europe and the Orient...
...Gompers' commentary is some what upset by the finding of fact by the Naval Consulting Board, which examined the capacity of American establishments to manufacture munitions, that of 18,654 plans, substantially 10 percent were union, and that of 1700 odd plants engaged in the fundamental manufactures, substantially 4 percent were union Nor is it irrelevant to call attention at this point to the fact that one of the first acts of the British Ministry, at the out-break of the War, was to negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked...
...result of the match between the University and Yale chess players held at New Haven in Dwight Hal. The ten games began at 7.30 o'clock with the University men playing "white" on the odd-numbered boards. The last games ended at 11.30 o'clock--the shortest game-having lasted but 20 minutes. If the advantage gained in the two deciding games, on boards 5 and 7 respectively, could have been kept the University team would have won the match by two games, as only one was necessary...
Cross-country work was commenced yesterday with the announcement to the 50 odd runners who reported at the Locker Building that Dr. W. T. McCarty, who formerly ran and later coached under Jack Moakley, the famous Cornell director, had been secured to coach the Crimson harriers during the eight weeks of the fall season...
...present a complete collection of works on engineering and technical subjects connected with that science, beside a file of all the important periodicals on the subject, is now on the shelyes. Among the 2500 monographs there is an especially noteworthy list of books on electricity, while the 130 odd periodicals offer the latest news of developments in the field of engineering. The library is still in the formative stage, and additions are being made daily by purchase and bequest. The hours during which the room is open are from 9 to 5 o'clock daily, and from...