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Princeton tied Navy two weeks ago and this attests to its strength more than anything else. The Middies, winners of 50 straight matches, undefeated and untied for seven years, were hard-pressed to gain a 14-14 deadlock...
...this season, Princeton has won six and lost two. Its team won a 68 to 7 decision over Lafayette two weeks ago...
...Long ago, someone said that Beatrice Lillie was the funniest woman on the English-speaking stage. This rather sweeping pronouncement has never been challenged and, indeed, could here be extended to "the funniest woman in the world" but for this writer's early memory of a great uncle who, after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there...
...second feature, "Nanook of the North" has returned. This classic Robert J. Flaherty documentary of a generation ago still surpasses a lot of current professional films. The simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...
Athletic Director Bill Bingham '16 altered the letter award system two weeks ago so that members of the winter track team could win a major H by placing in the Yale meet, but the new policy didn't result in much of a payoff at New Haven Saturday. Only ten men scored for the varsity, which took a 77-32 walloping in Yale's Coxe Cage...