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...Personality, teaching ability, and enthusiasm, rather than the number or quality of degrees to a man's credit, should be the primary considerations in the choice of teachers for elementary college courses," said the Reverend F. H. Sill, headmaster of the Kent School, in an interview last night...
Captain Sharp, who, in his first season at Harvard, turned out the team which won the 1929 indoor and outdoor intercollegiate trophies, has been ordered to Fort Sill to take charge of the advanced course i the Field Artillery School...
...hurried downstairs and notified the parents. All three ran back upstairs. The first thing they did was to inspect the floor to see if the child had crawled somewhere. He had not. One more look around the room disclosed muddy footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have had no idea of the overwhelming glare of press and police activity which was shortly to ignite...
...received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill & lady, soaked her loose with gasoline...
...found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of an airshaft in the Somerset Hotel, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. Although police investigated the possibility that she might have jumped through the window of her room on the fourth floor, they believed later that she may have fallen over the sill of the airshaft while moving about her room in the early morning...