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While thousands in Honolulu were cheering the Sikorsky's arrival last week, 23 men on Midway Island, a tiny tuft of green in the Pacific, were cheering the arrival of Pan American's air base construction ship North Haven, advance agent in the establishment of Pacific air service. An isolated cable relay station for 32 years, Midway is known to most mariners merely as a lighthouse. In charge of the small colony, which includes five Chinese and seven Japanese, is Acting Cable Superintendent G. B. Perry, who is also U. S. Naval custodian of the island...
...object of the gathering is to enable the graduates and undergraduates to become better acquainted. After luncheon, the former gridiron heroes will have the chance to watch the Jayvees take on the Providence College eleven or to watch the Harvard Freshmen in their game against Tuft's Jayvee team. Those who once were the crimson jersey of the cross-country team will see a championship team in action at the Open Intercollegiate Meet...
...most exciting games ever witnessed on the Business School Field, the Freshman lacrosse team gained sweet revenge yesterday for their only defeat of the year by nosing out the Tufts '37 team in a last minute rally 4-3. At the close of the third quarter the Tuft's men had a commanding 3-1 lead, and it was not until fifty two seconds before the final gun that Laurence H. Levy scored the tying goal. After playing one scoreless overtime period, the Freshmen finally triumphed on a goal by Nicholas J. Bounakes...
Though the score might seem to belie the fact, the work of the Tuft's goalie, McArdle, was praiseworthy, as he made numerous spectacular stops. Both of Tuft's goals were made by Breachen, playing at inhome for the visitors...
...Sinu is made from calf's tendon. Developed by Charles T. (''Tommy") Davis and Dr. George Aaron Sharp in Brooklyn, it has long been used as a substitute for gut in surgical sutures. It is manufactured like a textile. The gristly tendon is "exploded" into a tuft of fluffy white material like cotton, but much tougher. After being cleaned, carded, twisted into cord, chemically treated, stretched and dried, the result looks almost exactly like catgut...