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...Harvard Observatory at Cambridge will soon become possessor of the largest telescope in the east, it was announced last night by Dr. Harlow Shapley in a speech before the annual dinner of the Bond Astronomical Club. It will be of the reflector type, similar in size and in the general details of construction to the 60-inch telescope of the Harvard Observatory now being installed at its southern Station in Bioemfontein, South Africa...
...Sensible & modern, His Majesty will not use in the U. S. his more poetic titles, inherited from long ago: King of the North and of the South, Descendant of Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas. (Resembling in theory the Pope's triple-tiered tiara, multiple umbrellas are in many parts of the Orient the symbol of regal power...
...that it is by no means certain that the regulars on the wrestling team will take a majority of the finals in their respective classes. Arthur Klein '32, captain-elect of next year's team, twice winner of the New England Intercollegiate championship in the 126-pound class, and possessor of an undefeated record this year is expected to maintain his clean slate against any comers in his weight. This year's Freshman team also boasts of an undefeated champion in R. G. A. Ames '34, powerful 175-pound grappler, who is rated as an outstanding contender for supremacy...
...such widespread influence as the Oxonian, yet it does serve to stamp some Harvard men from Tampico to Timbuctoo. While the lingo of a telephone girl often prevents one from making embarrassing remarks to the wrong person, the Harvard accent has no significance beyond indicating that its possessor has got the wrong number...
Sticking out his posterior, lowering his head belligerently, Max Baer,* California heavyweight, possessor of a 16-cylinder car, confident manners and many suits of flashy clothes, charged out of his corner in Madison Square Garden last week and began to lambaste the ribs and features of Ernie Schaaf† of Elizabeth, N. J. Schaaf backed away and countered. In Schaaf's corner Jack Sharkey, working as second, poured advice into his ear: "Keep him out with your left. He don't know nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell...