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...same as last Thursday with the exception of S. N. Brown '24, stroke of the Junior crew, who was replaced by E. S. Matthews '23. So close was the choice that no definite decision could be made between them, the final position resting on the toss of a coin...
Every year when the arrangement of final examinations is announced, a number of men find their schedules entirely unsatisfactory. This is as inevitably true as that a coin tossed up enough, times will eventually come down heads. To make examination schedules equally attractive to everyone is obviously impossible. But the popular idea that the names of the various courses are put on individual slips of paper, and the examination dates drawn by lot in a sort of orgy in University-4, is far from the fact. The actual plan of arrangement is based on two considerations. First examinations in courses...
...squad on to the field, the University cheering of the whole Crimson side of the stands gave the squad enthusiastic welcome. The first University eleven ran through a few signals, then retired to the benches. Referee Tiny Maxwell went out to the middle of the field and flipped the coin betwen Captains Kane and Aldrich. The Eli leader won the toss and chose to defend the goal at the closed end of the Stadium. A moment later both teams ran out onto the gridiron...
...Freshman 150-pound crew which will meet Exeter this afternoon at Exeter was choused by the taps of a coin. The Competition between the two light 1924' eight has been very keen and there never has really been any "first" or "second" 150-pound boat. In a race over the half-mile course on the Charles early this week the judges decided that the finish was a dead heat, and since rowing conditions have been too poor for a test since then, the flip of a coin decided that the crew captained by Francis Mason would go. The line...
...carrier, such as the paper bill. It is bulky, ostentatious, and is a nuisance to carry in large numbers. Nevertheless the Treasury Department, in an attempt to restrict the present inflation of the currency system and gradually call in excessive paper money, has deemed it wise to reissue the coin as an aid to further stabilization of our monetary system and a return to a gold standardization of values...