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There has been some criticism of the University's failure to join the ranks of the Blue Eagle. Inasmuch as Harvard stands in the position of employer to something over 4,000 wage earners, this policy has been looked upon as evidence of a lack of public spirit on the...
Big tuna are too lazy to chase a moving bait. Fisherman Francis H. Low knew, when he learned from market fishermen where some big tuna had been sighted, that the thing to do was anchor his 22-ft. seaskiff and put out a chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker...
''Such disasters have been inflicted before by alert, aggressive military nations upon easy going, indifferent pacifist nations whose government was neglectful, short-sighted and incompetent. . . ."
It was an exciting but comparatively simple job to pluck three Boy Scouts off a narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly...
Still sailing northwards were: Ward T. Van Orman & Frank A. Trotter (U. S.); Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. Settle (last year's winner) & Charles H. Kendall (U. S.) who wirelessed that they were approaching Lake Huron; Philippe Quersin & Martial van Schelle (Belgium); Captain Franciszek Hynek & Lieut. Zbigniew Burzynski (Poland...