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...weak line will bring out a team's possibilities. From all accounts the Navy is a strong opponent for this stage of the season, with an aggressive line and quite a variety of backfield men, one or two of whom will stand comparison with the best backs of the big teams. They are without the services of last year's remarkable ends, and are in this respect considerably handicapped. In the game last year, Harvard won through a blocked kick, being unable to gain consistently by rushing. Both teams will be stronger today than last year, Harvard probably showing more...
...task before it is a big one. It will take a large amount of pressure to correct certain of the tendencies which it is proposed to alter and it will not be done in a day. An innovation such as this will require no little time to arrive at the most effective working basis, and the results must be considered accordingly. The encouragement received from the Athletic Committee will be of great assistance in the early months, but eventually the Council will work into its own particular relations with undergraduate life. There is no reason why they should not prove...
Harvard men have been rather prominent in golf during the past summer and have played important parts in several big tournaments. T. Briggs '09 won the Bar Harbor tournament and the championship at South Furrey, and playing with C. H. Burton '09 won the foursome State Championship of Southern Ohio. H. H. Wilder '09, captain of the University golf team, was runner-up in the Massachusetts State Championship and in two other tournaments; but his best performance was in the National Amateur Championships at Garden City where he was defeated by W. J. Travis at the forty-first hole...
Three pole-vaulters were developed last season, and while none of them was placed in the big meets, they all show promise of being valuable members of the team next spring. They are S.C. Lawrence '10, E.L. Parker '10, and J.L. Barr...
...past year sixty-three men have made use of the Text-Book Loan Library in Phillips Brooks House and the number would have been largely increased if there had been enough books available. The great need of the Library at present is contributions of books used in the big lecture courses of the University, particularly History, Government and Economics, and the collection which will be made today should meet with a response from every one who has book that are of no immediate use any longer...