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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Slater Bartlett, a 26-year-old New Englander now four years out of Lafayette College. Keen, vigorous, a young man of many interests and opportunities, he determined to make the school his career. His fellow prefect, Richard M. Cuyler, graduated by Princeton in 1923 with a high record, made the same choice and took the post of dean and registrar. Four other recent college graduates (Harvard, Lafayette and Princeton) soon joined them, and there is building today, not only a school, but another specific tradition of teaching that will reach out to other schools and back to the colleges...
...clearly see the houses of Indianapolis; he could see Cincinnati 50 miles to the south, and Columbus 65 miles northeast. The temperature about him was 79 degrees below zero. He was Lieutenant John A. Macready, flying an XCO-5 in an attempt to break the world's altitude record, held by M. Callise of France. The seven miles that separated him from Dayton were miles of clear and frigid...
...supercharger (a device for furnishing the mixing-chamber with sea-level conditions) went out of commission at 25,000 feet. Still he climbed. At 35,900 feet his engine balked. He wheeled and began to slide down to Dayton. He had failed by 3,586 feet to break the record of M. Callise, but set a new U. S. record. He said...
...unbeaten Freshman sextet with a record of four victories behind them will entrain at 1.15 o'clock today for Exeter, where they will clash with the Academy skaters on the outdoor rink at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The powerful first year hockey squad is determined to equal the accomplishments of the 1927 and 1928 skaters by ending the season with a clean slate. The Freshman teams have now run their record of wins in the last three years up to 24. Of these the 1927 six won 12 and the last year's Freshmen, eight. Last year the Crimson...
...record made by Andover thus far this year is unimpressive, two defeats and two victories having been registered. Lawrence Academy and Boston University Freshmen were disposed of, but Tufts 1929 and Dean Academy has outpointed Andover in the last two games...