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Yale coach Ducky Pond sent his two ace backs Bud Humphrey and Al Wilson, both slightly wounded, to view the clash and get a glance on what they will see more closely in two weeks. They were impressed...
...Yale Bowl, Fritz Crisler's Michigan team, which had lost to Minnesota in the last five minutes of play the week before, turned the tables by snatching the game from Ducky Pond's surprisingly scrappy Yale eleven five minutes before the final gun. Thus, with a 15-10-13 victory Michigan avenged the trouncing Yale handed her the last time they...
This scouting stuff, by the way, is really something. Harlow likes only two or three scouts, but some of the other colleges favor the mass angle Yale's Ducky Pond, for example, sends out a veritable mass of assorted coaches, undergraduates, and willing alumni. Last year he sent seven scouts to see Harvard play Princeton. At the Dartmouth game last Saturday it was rumored that he had seven spies on the Green and an equal number for the Crimson. That brings up the ticket problem, but we shall save that for another discussion...
...latter view is taken by the editors of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated...
After digging out the basin for a pond, the Stone Age people lined it with straw, then covered the straw with a layer of clay. This furnished the necessary insulation. Some present-day English builders are reputedly able to make successful dew ponds, but they generally use concrete instead of straw and clay. Moreover, after construction, these modern ponds have to be filled with water first in order to keep going. Whether the ponds of the ancients filled up by natural accumulation of water, starting from a dry basin, no one knows...