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...doubles, Debevoise also advanced to the final round with his partner, Dixon, defeating Bandler and Babbitt, 6-3, 6-1, in a listless match that called forth very little brilliant tennis. In the only other encounter of the afternoon, Cummings and Perkins easily defeated Collier and Pratt...
...doubles the only serious upset was the defeat of E. M. Upjohn and J. McC. Roots '25, by Bernard Bandler '26 and E. S. Dabbitt '26, 6-4, 6-1. Bandler's steady drives and the accurate lobbing of Babbitt were too much for their opponents...
...Debevolse '26, defeated E. S. Babbitt '26, 6-4, 6-2. A. R. Allen '25 defeated S. F. Collier '26 in a stiff match, being hard pushed in the last set. The score was 6-3, 7-5. The biggest surprise of the day came when J. McC. Roots '25 was defeated by G. K. Lake...
...Debevoise '26 advanced to the fourth round by defeating G.B. Manning '26 6-1, 6-3 D. S. Babbitt '26 defeated Clark Hodder '25, the University golf captain, 6-3, 0-1. T. E. Jansen Jr. '26 lost to G.K. Lake '26 6-4, 6-2. The only other other upset of the torunamone came when T.O. Kingsbury '27 defeated Stephen Thompson 2nd '27 9-7, 4-6, 6-3. The result of this match was a surprise for Thompson played numnumber three on the feshman team last year, whereas Kingsbury was number eight of the squade. The semi-finals...
...example", said Professor Babbitt, "anyone can convince himself of the startling relevancy to existing conditions of Aristotle's 'Politics', especially now that we have begun to slip our constitutional moorings and to drift towards a direct democracy. There are passages in it as modern as the morning newspaper, and at least a hundred times more sensible. Take the passage: 'Such legislation (against private property) may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils...