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...Author. The late David Herbert Lawrence died at Vence near Nice last March of tuberculosis. Son of a coalminer in central England, he had a hard time all his life. In 1914 he tactlessly married Frieda von Richthofen, sister of the famed German flyer. Three times declared consumptive, unfit for military service, he was nevertheless suspected of pacifism or worse, did not enjoy the War. After the Armistice he left England, wandered the world, lived for a while near Taos, N. Mex. Other books: Sons and Lovers, Aaron's Rod, Fantasies of the Unconscious, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley...
...ugly impression of negligence, or at least undue haste, grew yet higher with the testimony of Vice-Marshal Dowding. Fearing the dirigible was unfit for the long voyage, he said, he ordered Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore (another crash victim) to run a full power test as soon as possible after casting off from the mooring mast at Cardington. Apparently this order was ignored...
Final preparation for the Michigan game was somewhat hampered yesterday by the cold weather, which resulted in a frozen field unfit for practice; after a few minutes of kicking and passing in the Stadium, the team retired to the Briggs Cage, where the seconds put on Michigan plays and the first team put on their own formations...
...injured list were Mays and White, the only men not in uniform yesterday; they, however, watched the practice from the sidelines. White will definitely be out of the Springfield game this Saturday, while it seems likely that Mays will also be unfit for the game. In the team A backfield, Record played the entire afternoon in Batchelder's position, as the veteran back is letting down a trifle after his strenuous work on Saturday, when he played through the bulk of both games. Following the scrimmage the teams had signal practice with a white ball, until Horween called...
...dealing with the liquor problem in its own novel and peculiar fashion. At the beginning of the year a notice is sent to each student to the effect that all liquor within a radius of twenty miles of the college has been tested by the authorities and found unfit to drink. It is suggested that the students lay off the stuff too. Apparently no information is given as to where a one can get a decent drink, but presumably it is assumed that any bright boy with a college education ought to be able to find out such things...