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After the week spent in turning back the rugged forces of Yale, Army, and Pennsylvania Military College, the Harvard and Princeton polo teams have earned the right to vie for the intercollegiate polo title, which will be decided tomorrow at Rye, New York. Although the Crimson teams have won this championship twice before, the Tigers have never come through in the finals, save unofficially...
...Koldhard Fax" will be played by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, in the presentation of "License Revoked," a one-act play on capital punishment. Mather will be arrayed against Mand Lynn Sentiment, Mrs. Vie Tim Foakes, and Spear I. T. Murder...
...Bourbon princess, master in his own right of 15% of the world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise which took place last week, put some $2,000,000 a year into his pocket. The only person in the world who can vie with him is good Queen Wilhelmina of Holland who controls the Dutch tin industry, producer of 20% of the world's tin. But alas for both of them, their prospective profits were in dollars which, translated into francs and guilders, would be very much diminished...
...Cleveland's yearly ''sanction fee'' to the National Aeronautic Association. But Chicago preferred an arrangement announced last week. Century of Progress' President Rufus Cutler Dawes made known that Chicago will hold International Air Races Sept. 1-4. LT. S. and foreign pilots will vie for "rich cash prizes'' at Curtiss-Reynolds field, scene of the 1930 national meet...
Psychology may claim as its best point its informality and breadth. Some of its departments are far nearer philosophy than science; others vie with the most exact of the sciences in accuracy. The field is not difficult; its material is of cultural and academic, rather than of practical value, dealing with principles and schools of thought, rather than with the application of these principles. It attempts to give the student some insight into the workings of the mind, both human and animal, an insight which, although it may or may not be of assistance in attaining one's first million...