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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lance against Princeton's 2,412. Williams with 740 tackles Columbia's 32,769. Washington and Jefferson's 776 challenge West Virginia's 2,729, Carnegie Tech's 6,031 and Pitt's 9,304. Plucky little Colgate hurls her 825 against Michigan State's 1,878, Brown's 2,035, Indiana's 5.106, Syracuse's 7,546, Wisconsin's 11,893 and the mighty hordes oj Columbia. There are countless other cases. Princeton and Yale have passed the half-century mark in their traditional classic, but the Tiger...
Stimson's Studies. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson completed a three-week "instruction course" which qualified him as a naval expert for the London conference. His teachers, admirals of the Navy's General Board, called one after another at his office to give lessons in naval equipment, strategy, statistics. It was announced that as a lover of peace, not as a pacifist, would Statesman Stimson lead the U. S. delegation to London...
Cotton's Boast. The State Department has been working cooperatively with the Navy in an effort to attain specific agreements as to the Navy's needs. Representing the State Department has been Undersecretary Joseph Potter Cotton, onetime Manhattan lawyer. Out of these State-Navy conferences last week came this story: Undersecretary Cotton, impatient with the Navy's attitude on cruiser design and gun effectiveness, remarked across the council table: "If I could not design a cruiser with six-inch guns that could whip a cruiser with eight-inch guns, I'd go and jump...
...State Department attaches had long been wondering whether any complaint would be made to Ambassador Dawes about the excessive costliness of his cable messages from London. On diplomatic business the Ambassador has been anything but brief and $400 messages from him to Washington have not been rare. If Statesman Stimson had any intention of suggesting that Ambassador Dawes economize on cable tolls, he put it aside when the Ambassador, all geniality, asked him to put up at the U. S. embassy during the London conference. Arm-in-arm they went off to Woodley, the Stimson estate, for luncheon. Secretary Stimson...
Coach Gallagher comes with rather an impressive athletic record from Kansas State Agricultural College. He has had previous experience as a coach for track, football, and basketball teams, as well as having won the collegiate wrestling championship in the 145-pound class...