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...game was hard fought but Harvard made her best showing of the season and secured a big lead at the start. Princeton's defense was not very strong, and was unable to check effectively the fast work of the Harvard forwards. The best playing was done by Winsor and Carr for Harvard, and by Purnell for Princeton. The line-up: HARVARD. PRINCETON. Pruyn, f. f., Ogden. Winsor, f. f., Purnell. Foster, f. f., Leake. Rumsey, f. f., McAlpin. Penhallow, c.p. c.p., Poe. Carr, p. p., Sheffield. Manning, g. g., Paull...
...University hockey team met its first defeat of the season the hands of Yale, in New York, Saturday night by the score of 4 to 3. The game was very fast and exciting throughout, but Yale played much the stronger at the start, and obtaining a big lead, who out through superior team work. This game puts Yale temporarily at the head of the intercollegiate league with a total of three victories and no defeats. Harvard is how in second place...
World's Work --"The Big Trees of California," R. T. Fisher '98; "Increasing Railroad Consolidation," M. G. Cunniff...
...consider for a minute why we have athletic sports at all. Is it not for the pleasure and amusement to be gained from them, for the cultivation of manliness and for the benefit to general health and vigor? Of course in the case of our big teams or crews, where the strain is most severe, men do not try for them for their health, but to "make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit...
...graduation of Sargent and the improbability of Lee's playing again, make a big hole in the centre. Barnard, however, should be very strong next year and C. A. Shea '04, C. H. Robinson '04 and F. B. Riggs '03 are good men. King 1L. is a promising candidate for centre, having played on the second team all year. H. K. Roberts '04 and W. A. Sugden '03 seem to be the only other available candidates for this position...