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...which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under the reign of Herbert Hoover, were solemnly printed in newspapers. Banks cashed his modest, worthless checks and people took his imperial banknotes bearing 7% interest, which he promised to redeem in 1880. That year Norton I died...
Hoping to redeem their defeat at the hands of the Yale team last week, the Varsity fencing men will engage in their last meet of the year today when they face the Shawmut Fencing Club at 3 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...free style events, Yale is conceded a decided advantage over Harvard. A. Gregory James on '37 will be hard pressed in the 200 yard swim by Cooke of the Blue aggregation. The Harvard mermen are expected to redeem themselves however, in the dive, the breast stroke, and the backstroke. Carl L. Goulland '37 is slated to take the honors in the 150 yard backstroke, George A. Pedge '37 will, as usual, constitute a serious threat to his opponent in the dive...
Fesler's basketball team which is ignominiously trailing all other teams in the Eastern League will attempt to redeem itself against the Dartmouth Indians who come to the New Indoor Athletic Building this evening. The event begins at 8.30 o'clock following a Freshman game with the Hanoverian 1937 team at 7.30 o'clock...
...praiser of times past, McConaughy thinks U. S. reverence for the Founding Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers." When Congress decided, during Alexander Hamilton's treasuryship, to redeem at par value the nearly worthless certificates with which the Revolutionary Army had been paid, fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys...