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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single event. First places, which count five points, are only worth one more than seconds, two more than thirds, so that the result of a meet depends not on how many races are won but on how many runners get into the final heats and stay near the winners. All the same, in a close meet, the difference between a first and a fourth place can easily decide it. Stanford was still two points ahead of Southern California last week when, in a knot of people who had come from the stands onto the bright green field, the last event...
...immediate question before the trustees is whether Stanford's absentee president, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur. U. S. Secretary of the Interior, may continue to stay away during the remainder of President Herbert Hoover's term without forfeiting his Palo Alto position. The answer to that question will determine when Stanford will do the thing so long ago proposed by Dr. Jordan, planned and already begun by Dr. Wilbur: Abolish freshman and sophomore years, become a graduate-grade university like Johns Hopkins, now unique...
Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor by Conductor Erich Kleiber and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50)?The New York Philharmonic's new man plays the New World Symphony inspired by the Czech composer's three-year stay...
...account of his early life. A Russian, Siemel worked as a printer on a Buenos Aires newspaper, left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German...
Members of the crews will take examinations at Red Top, and throughout the stay, two practices will be held per day by the University, Freshman, and Jayvee boats. Coach White side has announced, however, that for this week the workouts will be light, with more difficult drills being started next Monday. It is expected that the first time trial will be given to the University and Jayvee boats a week from next Saturday, or less than a week before the race...