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...outside chance to tie for the League championship, the powerful Cornell quintet takes the floor against Harvard's cellar five this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the New Indoor Athletic Building. If Cornell wins, and if Princeton defeats Pennsylvania tonight, the Ithacans will have equalled the Quaker record of nine victories and three defeats...
Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Secretary of State, and R. Douglas Stuart, vice president of Quaker Oats Co.. were elected directors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, succeeding the late Alexander Legge and the late Walker Downes Hines, onetime (1919-20) Director General of U. S. railroads...
...worsted in similar colors. Only a derby may be worn with it, in blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular.'' Champagne coats, designed like the dinner jackets, come in blue, quaker grey, bisque, green and champagne, may be worn with black welt-seamed trousers...
Outplayed from the beginning to the end of the contest, the Crimson basketball team suffered a 33-21 defeat at the hands of Swarthmore's aggregation Saturday night at Swarthmore. Harvard's big team was behind all the game, and never threatened the Quaker's lead...
When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...