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Secretary of the Navy Adams cancelled the Lexington's sailing orders, reconsidered Tacoma's request. Naval officers admitted that the Lexington's 190,000 h. p. plant could generate nearly three times (140,000 kilowatts) the amount of electricity required by Tacoma (50,000 kilo-watts), that transfusion of this power from the ship to the city's distributing stations was altogether practicable. But if the ship were sent, might not a precedent be set?civilians being the importunate souls they are?that would keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Profane Proposal | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...orchestra, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, has been practicing steadily during the fall in anticipation of the winter season, and it has planned three special pieces for its opening program. The first will be Handel's Overture to the Ode for Saint Cecelia's Day, for strings and obees, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B. minor, for strings and flutes: Rondean, Sarabande Bource I, Bource II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Radinaric. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY OFFERS FIRST CONCERT OF SEASON | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...addition to the College teams which are entered in the state tourney, three groups of graduates will play matches during the season. The Harvard Business School team will play the Harvard Medical School team this afternoon, and the Harvard Graduate Faculty players will face the Newton Y. M. C. A. there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN ENGAGE IN OPENING MATCHES | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years there were ties, and two years no games." These are unquestionably the hard facts, but not all of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Situation Down at Yale | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...candidates will be asked to report between then and Christmas vacation, in order to get in condition for the coming events. The Knights of Columbus meet will be the first of the winter season, about three weeks after the vacation, in the Boston Garden on January 25. During the middle of December, there will be an informal indoor track meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK TEAM GATHERS FOR WINTER PRACTICE | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

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