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...Dave McLean, the smallest member of his squad, who gave Coach Bill McCurdy a chance to shake hands with the coaches and officials who congregated around the finish line. McLean's seventh place sealed the Crimson victory. The final point totals were: Harvard, 26; Princeton, 42; and Yale...
...Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth. Kipling shuddered at the spittoons, called the hotel "a seven-storied warren of humanity...
Frederick John Kiesler has one of the smallest frames and biggest brains in contemporary art. A gentle, Vienna-born egotist, he lives in strict simplicity in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and at 58 still steadfastly refuses to limit his ideas to the salable, the practical or even the altogether sensible. His colleagues have been both damning and deifying his theories for years. Because he keeps well ahead of his time, Kiesler has little substance to show for his notions and few laymen ever have heard...
...past, record numbers of candidates have turned out for the permanent committee elections, while barely enough men to fill the positions have run for the less glorious Class Day Committee. Last year only 17 ran for the ten man group. Eleven of these were from Leverett--the smallest House. Over 90 per cent of Leverett House men cast ballots, while a record low voted in the other Houses...
Once a course with 235 freshmen, Air Science 1 this year has an enrollment of nineteen, the smallest number of entering students in its history...