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...flock of blue-jerseyed athletes will arrive in Boston this morning to battle for Eli on the gridiron and the soccer field. Yale is sending nearly 150 men to compete in sports over the week-end and 43 of these are Varsity football players...
...most turbulent Mayoral election in 20 years only eight days away, last week the semi-final results of the Literary Digest's straw poll stood: Fusion Candidate Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, 217,599; Recovery Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee, 169,715; Tammany's Candidate, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, 51,562. Undoubtedly Candidate LaGuardia had drawn ahead for a while in the preceding fortnight but other, more up-to-date straw-voting persuaded Wall Street betters to reinstate McKee last week-end as the favorite at even money, with odds against LaGuardia...
...spring. This fall, it has already been decided to present two plays, and no plans have yet been made for the spring. The first presentation will be an old-time melodrama entitled "The Fireman," and will be presented Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25, the week-end of the Yale game. This play was written by Samuel Johnson, an actor, and was first produced in Boston...
Addresses by leaders in undergraduate extra-curricular activities will feature a meeting sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The affair, which is an annual event, will be the final reception of "Freshman Week-end" and will take place in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House...
...regiment of Marines was kept discreetly out of sight when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Private Secretary Marguerite Lehand, arrived at Quantico to board the U. S. S. Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party...