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...less we say the better. The jokes and articles are uniformly poor; the drawings for the most part little more. A frontispiece sketch depicting the infant freshman, lost amid a pile of grips, packages and steamer rugs, and finally unwound and revealed in the college office is the best of the lot. But who are the strange individuals in it masquerading as Deans? Can one of them be Mr. Whitney? We should like pleasantly to remark first that the "multitude of shins" idea, embodied in one of Ibis's "inklings" is as old, about, as Don Marquis...
...King. This slice of the cinema Outline of History takes the spectator for a protracted visit to Spain in the 16th Century. To afford opportunity for a vast and valuable display of costumes, helmets and architecture, a love story with familiar portions of jealousy and strife is unwound. Pictorially the production is excellent; as narrative it is dull. Blanche Sweet and Edmund Lowe make personable protagonists...
...artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
Considerable interest has been taken in a device invented by Irving Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it, and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully reproduces the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke...
...roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully produces the length, strength, and peculiarities in each stroke. The article was written under the auspices of Robert Cooke, and contains cuts of the machine and specimens of curves, including the types of five of the Yale University crew - Caldwell, Stevenson, Stewart, Middlebrook, and Woodruff. Each has his own individualities. The uses of the contrivance were classified as follows...