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...Jove himself comes barging in his stride. --Jacobus Amundus...
...university away from the past and towards the coming years. What the future holds for Harvard, or indeed for the world, no one can accurately tell. But if the "university tradition" of the past gives indication of a healthy future, certainly Harvard starts her fourth century with a firm stride...
...fast scientific stride Biologist William Firth Wells, industrious instructor of sanitary science at the Harvard School of Public Health, has made oyster eggs germinate artificially and by means of artificial sunlight made germs vanish from thin air. Last week after working persistently against smaller & smaller forms of life, Biologist Wells was able to announce that by means of ultraviolet light he destroys the minuscule cause of influenza as it floats...
...Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees on July 4 were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
...precision, No. 2 (Beverly Rockhold) and No. 3 (Charles Gruneisen) held the lead. At the final touch-off Texas' anchor-man (Harvey Wallender) had a five-yard start over Temple's Eulace Peacock. Fifteen yards from the finish Negro Peacock suddenly leaped into the air, broke his stride, hopscotched over the line in agony with a pulled muscle. But the Texans deserved their victory. Time was 0:41.1, a half-second better than the meet record. Next day the same foursome, together since freshman year, smashed the 880-yd. record with the time...