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Four years ago a passer-by along the shores of the New Jersey's Raritan River would have seen two crews racing down the Herley course against each other. One boat was a second hand gig lent by Lawrenceville Preparatory School for the occasion, and the other a similar purchased boat from Princeton. In the boats were the first and second crews of Rutgers University...
With word that various Princeton Wayfarers were forced to return to New Jersey by train instead of the Cape Cod and Raritan Canal route for which they had paid passage, the tentacles of the west coast shipping strike reach far and wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that...
Since the death of Wisconsin's "Dad" Vail in there has been only one grand old man in rowing, Jim Ten Eyck of Syracuse, now in his 86th year and active in the sport. His son, Young Jim, is coaching the infant Rutgers crew on Raritan. Syracuse, under Ten Eyck, is always a threat...
...Across the Raritan River from Highland Park, N. J., someone tried to break into the nursery of Diane Johnson, seven weeks, whose father is vice president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings). The marauder leaped from his ladder, exchanged shots with a night watchman, fled. Police soon collared a suspect...
During its 164 years Rutgers University, on the south bank of the Raritan River at New Brunswick, N. J., has had ten presidents, one acting president. Last week Philip Milledoler Brett, class of 1892, Manhattan attorney, was made Rutgers' second executive pro tempore, succeeding John Martin Thomas, president since 1925, who resigned to become vice president of National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier...