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...oldest tradition of the East is hospitality, the next oldest cour- tesy. Ignoring all ill-mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings over the immigration dispute, the Imperial household of Japan restored the balance of Nippo-American amenities by presenting the American colony of Toyko, rent free, with a valuable tract of land, as a site for an American School...
...equipped laboratories of the Rhone Engineering Works, Lyons, by M. Eugene Royer, their director, himself an inventor. He also has French financial backing, but he declares the French Government has no connection with the offer. In France he will experiment with the high frequency currents, on a large uninhabited tract, and he has unbounded confidence that he will soon be able to demonstrate the efficacy of his discovery. He expects to be able to use his "ray" within a radius of four miles, with a maximum of eight. The British War Office is now investigating Mr. Mathews...
...benefit of all those members of the University and Freshman track squads who are not journeying to Princeton with Coach Farrell this morning, a consolation track meet will be staged on the Stadium tract at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...prevalence of so-called "grippe" within the college community and also within the community at large during the months of January, February, and March. The absenteeism on account of illness is in over 80 percent of the cases due to infections of the upper respiratory tract which are variously reported as "grippe," "colds," "bronchitis," etc. In general the comparative figures show that the college community shares in the state of health of the community at large...
...Charles River finally assumed their present proportions nearly 35 years ago when Major Henry Lee Higginson '82 gave the College 31 acres on North Harvard Street adjoining the land previously donated to the College. He named his gift "The Soldiers Field," the name by which the entire athletic tract is now known...