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Promising to repeat its victory of last year, Lowell House now leads it nearest rival for the House All-Round Championship Trophy by 55 points. Although Winthrop as runner-up can lessen the gap with victories in their three remaining contests by about 21 points, there is no hope of dislodging the Bellboys from their top position...
...every applicant and that the experience of tutors be carefully heeded, the report points the way to an efficient method of determining students' personal qualities. Furthermore by grouping the awards into classes and not announcing the small "aids", the University will be able to consider extracurricular activities and general all-round ability, unhampered by public criticism and interference. Thus a few deserving Group IV men should no longer be sacrificed for Group III "grinds...
...Author has ridden to hounds for 35 years. Well-to-do, like most M.F.H.'s, he still goes to his old-fashioned Manhattan office to "work for his living" as a coal dealer. An all-round horseman, he har had many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D...
...Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major development in the rise of U. S. winter sports in the last eight years...
...Racket" No season ends normally without the customary agitation over professionalism. This year's came from Professor George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, naval architect and father of George Owen Jr., Harvard's famed all-round athlete who caused something of a sensation himself twelve years ago by describing football as "drudgery I never enjoyed." To the Cambridge (Mass.) Industrial Association Professor Owen declared that "the language of the coaches far outdistances the most colorful of the Navy speech," that universal subsidizing of football players was an open secret, that "the greatest offenders" were Notre Dame...