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Aided by the great kicking and running of S. L. Batchelder '31, the University Freshman clung tenaciously to a six point lead, established in the second period of their contest with the Yale first year eleven, last Saturday, to win from their heavier Eli rivals. This is the second successive victory that a Harvard Freshman team has chalked up against the Blue since E. L. Casey '19 took over the Crimson coaching job, and also marks the close of an undefeated season for the 1931 eleven...
Lisbon. Through a cordon of vociferous police a band of students sprang. Shouting greetings they swung cloaks off their shoulders and spread them for the feet of Miss Ruth Elder. Touched, she thanked them; excited and faintly afraid of the pushing Portugese she clung to the arm of Fred Morris Dearing, American Minister to Portugal. Lisbon revelled. As she stepped to the mainland of Europe (14 days almost to the hour after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, with pilot George W. Haldeman for a transatlantic flight which ended when they were hoisted from the ocean off the Azores...
...city [Baltimore] who never fell under the spell of the methods for which H. L. Mencken stands. . . While the Evening Sun [Mr. Mencken's]was saying in effect that it is a pretty sordid world and all jobholders ought to be hung,* Mr. Adams clung to his old sentimental love of the human race.'' Said H. L. Mencken in the Evening Sun: "Of all the journalists I have known in this life, the late Jonh Haslup Adams was the only one who never made a visitor compromise with hie convictions...
...light fog clung to the flat, glassy sea between Ambrose Light and Fire Island, N. Y. Captain Maurice Aubert had just ordered a change in course, and for a horrid second, thought he had run aground when the France, with nothing but a limpid swell around her, listed with violent suddenness. Captain Aubert remembered his soundings of a moment before and knew the France could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil...
...Madame Clemente was escorted from her aromatic lair on the blue arm of the law. Fragments of chiffon still clung to her and she was complacently resilient under the most grueling ordeals...