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...Princess mine, one of the oldest in the Cape Breton area, was opened in 1867. So many tons have been gouged from its insides that the main shaft now runs nearly two miles out under the salty waters of Sydney Harbor, more than 1,000 feet below the surface. In the early morning, as a clammy fog began to blow off the harbor, grizzled old colliers and young shavers, eager to put pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting...
Died. Dr. William Moore Guilford, 106, oldest U. S. country doctor; of pneumonia; in Lebanon, Pa. Dr. Guilford's recipe for longevity: "Choose a hardy, healthy and long-lived grandfather...
...among publishers, big, affable, 47-year-old Eugene Virginius Connett III, is a rare bird. Until twelve years ago his business was hats. One of the best dry-fly fishermen in the U. S., he is descended from an old New Jersey sporting family which owned one of the oldest U. S. men's hat factories. Publisher Connett liquidated the business during a strike, then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies of a sporting book on a hand press at home. When he started The Derrydale Press in 1927, that was the sum of his publishing experience...
Graduation is the oldest alibi in the world for not having a good team, but Hal Ulon may still use it. Consider that with the Class of 1938 departed, with the exception of three men, a group of swimmers who comprised possibly the best dual meet team in the world. A coach doesn't usually lose a sprinkling of champions like Charlle Hutter, Graham Cummin, and Bill Kendall all at ones. Ulon faces a job he has attempted, and succeeded in before. He must build up a team that is worthy not only of the name of Harvard...
Described by Colonel Charles F. Apted '12, as "one of the best employees I can remember," and by Kenneth Murdock '16, Master of Leverett, as "one of my oldest friends," George had little to say about himself. He considers the House Plan, which he has watched from its infancy, to have proven a success. "It brings out the best in the boys and makes them a fine, democratic group," he said, reserving particular praise for the Rabbits...