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Prior to now the finest tone-division ever achieved was on the arpacitera, a zither-like instrument with a one-octave range which produced sixteenth tones. It was played with the Philadelphia Orchestra three years ago by Beatrice Weller. Specially constructed French horns have also achieved sixteenth tones...
...star, hurled the 12-pound shot 50 feet 11 3-8 inches, over a foot more than the old meet record of 49 feet 9 1-2 inches set by Wilbur Marshall of Medford High in 1927. In the high jump, Jack Sandler of Lowell High bettered by one-sixteenth inch the old record set by Reb Russell of Lynn Classical in 1924 when he leaped five feet 10 1-2 inches. Al Morin, of David Prouty, set a new meet record in the 100-yard dash when he ran the distance in 10 seconds flat. He also...
...field of literature, a course in English literature during the sixteenth century is being offered. The course will deal especially with the background of Puritan literature, and will be given by Merritt Yerkes Hughes, associate professor of English at the University of California...
...Divina Commedia during the past fifty years. 8. The relation of modern scientific discovery to Dante's conception of the divine order of the universe. 9. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli. 10. A study of the decline of Dante's influence in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 11. Modern traits in Dante. 12. Dante in the anecdotic literature of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. 13. The influence of Guido Cavalcanti on Dante. 14. A criticism of Torraca's edition of the Divina Comedia. Other subjects that those above listed may be submitted for approval to Professor Weston
...fifth. On the second nine he made every hole in four except two that he made in two. In the afternoon he made one mistake-he took a six on the seventeenth. Smith, who was playing up behind him, heard about it as he started for the sixteenth tee. He knew that three pars were all he needed to beat Jones. Other golfers have been in this position, and have taken three eights, but Smith just did what he wanted to, and saw his name put up in first place when he posted his score-Horton Smith, unattached. His score...