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Count Apponyi has been Royal Hungarian Minister of Public Education since 1906, and since 1872 a member of the House of Commons, where he has almost always been a member of the opposition. From 1902 to 1904 he was Speaker of that House...
...lead on the second. Boyle again passed Jaques and held the lead for the third and fourth laps. On the straightaway of the last lap, Jaques made a desperate effort to catch Boyle, and in the last 20 yards got the pole, and the two struck the tape almost together, Boyle winning by a matter of two or three inches...
...game on Saturday was rough from start to finish, and until almost the middle of the second half with the score 2 to 0 against Harvard, it looked as though the hard body-checking of the heavier Yale, players would prove too much for the light University offence...
...Arena yesterday afternoon. The game was hotly contested owing to the quick following back of the Boston players, and the University forwards had difficulty in getting away from their opponents. There was a noticeable lack of team-play on the part of the Harvard offence, as the passes were almost always intercepted by the Boston defence. Nevertheless, the new combination of Huntington at forward seems to have much defensive merit, and the puck was in the Hockey Club's territory most of the time. Chadwick's playing at goal was a noticeable feature. The following men played: UNIVERSITY. BOSTON HOCKEY...
...Duncan, and these two made ten of the twelve goals. Nearly every goal was made by one of the forwards taking the puck from an opponent and outskating all but one or two of the other players. The Dartmouth defence was weak, as is shown by the fact that almost every time one of the University forwards got loose, a goal resulted. At the end of the first half the score was 4 to 1 in favor of Harvard. In the second half the Dartmouth forwards weakened and the home team scored almost at will...