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...last week only 1,863 cases were reported by the U. S. Public Health Service. Said Assistant Surgeon General Claude Connor Pierce: "We have the influenza scare every year, and we find that it is present again in a mild form. We admit we are powerless to act against it, because the actual cause of influenza has never been determined. The advice we give anyone suffering from a cold or the grip at this time of the year is either to stay in bed, or at home, and not to circulate the germ...
...absence of LaRue, is the same that faced the M. I. T. Freshmen last Saturday. In that encounter the Crimson was victorious by a score of 52 to 9. The game was marked by vigorous playing by the Harvard team, against which the M. I. T. Freshmen were powerless. LeRue particularly distinguished himself, both in individual action and team-play...
...nicknamed Rasputin ("The Debauchee") and who perhaps "caused" as much as anyone the fall of the Romanovs. His power over the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that their only son, Alexis, was a hemophile, bled profusely at the navel on the slightest provocation. Doctors were powerless to stop the bleeding; but Rasputin contrived to do so, by what means will per haps never be known. He was too clever to show his debauched nature to the Tsar, who saw in him the daily savior of the Tsarevitch Alexis' life, and thus listened too readily...
...balcony and gallery in the Charles Hopkins Theatre, the audience follows, sympathetically but a trifle wearily, the fortunes of an Iowa innocent (Neil Martin) on Columbia University's Broadway campus. Even before classes have fairly begun, he is in love with a chorus girl. Mother and brother are powerless to interfere. Not till the unfortunate chorus girl confides that she is possessed of a hidden liability five months old does poor Teddy go back to his books, a sadder and a wiser man. The best reason for visiting Charles Hopkins Theatre these days is to see the little theatre...
...offense that Exeter may have had was rendered powerless by the constant fumbling of the schoolboy backs. The Harvard line refused to yield to any attack, and the home team was forced to resort to a kicking game, which succeeded in holding off the Freshmen to a certain extent, although Wetmore, flashy 1930 quarterback, excelled in the handling and running back of these punts...