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...explained that China is the greatest of all nations in age, industry and population. Over two thousand years ago the country was civilized but today social and political conditions are much the same as they were at that time. Views were shown of the different modes of travelling at the present time and one of a model of a crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world...
Lieutenant Gammon went on to explain many of the customs prevalent in China today, the religious of the people, and the effect of modern civilization upon them. He closed by showing the change which the new awakening of the people is bringing about in the country and what education is doing for a nation, the masses of which look back thousands of years for their ideals of civilization...
Applications for the Cornell football game must reach the Athletic Office before 12 o'clock on October 30, instead of today, as was announced in yesterday's CRIMSON. Application blanks may be obtained at Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee's, the Co-operative, the Athletic Office, and at Wright & Ditson's in Boston...
...following examinations will be held today: 10 A. M. to 12 M., translation from Latin into English; 2 P. M. to 4 P. M., Latin prose; 5 P. M. to 7 P. M., arithmetic. Candidates must report in Room 207 of the Administrative Building this morning at 9.30 o'clock...
...Haven, Conn., October 18, 1909.--Practice today at Yale was light, due to the fact that most of the regulars were given a rest. The scrimmage was short, snappy, and featureless except for a forty-yard end run by Robinson for the only touchdown of the day. The first team lined up as follows: l.e., Brooks; l.t., Paul, Spencer; l.g., Brown, Bronson; c., Cooney; r.g., Goebel; r.t., Tomlinson; r.e., Naedel; q.b., Howe; l.h.b., Robinson; r.h.b., Ristler; f.b., Francis...