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...approximates 850. In addition Ac and Sheff are unfortunately separated by the insurmountable barriers of one or two blocks of administration buildings. Consequently, no one knows a quarter of the men in his Class. There is little Class, spirit, little incentive to stay around week-ends and to organize scrub teams. It is apparent that the House Plan by breaking up these unwieldy units will go far towards recouping the old Yale spirit. That is one great hope of the House Plan...
...small python which is common there, etc. . . There were thousands of a dark wedge-tailed Shearwater just about to commence breeding and smaller numbers of a small white-bellied one, which we learned later are described as local races. . . The land birds are very few, one--a little scrub wren described by Alexander in 1922; another the little quail also a topotypical speciman. There is an abundance of small Wallaby here, an island race of Macropus eugenii. . . Our two weeks passed very quickly and pleasantly, though water was very scarce and we were limited to about two cups...
...preparation for the Harvard game with a short practice at Thompson Field today. Coach Stevens will drill the men for an hour in Harvard Stadium tomorrow afternoon. Never before has a Yale football team concentrated so definitely on the Harvard game. The team has been scrimmaging against a scrub team which wore red jerseys each with the number corresponding to that of the Harvard man who plays that position. In addition, the first string squad has had diagrams of all the Cambridge plays to study, and pictures of the Harvard players, in order to acquaint themselves with every opponent...
...from the games, let it send some of its members to increase the number of unemployed. If on the other hand, it wishes to aid the people of Cambridge and environs, why not use the charity money to increase, at lest slightly, the wages of the University's waitresses, scrub men, and unskilled labor...
Still wearing his long black coat and his high silk hat, Sir Owen Cosby Philipps Baron Kylsant straightway motored to Wormwood Scrubs, passed through the jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...