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...Samborski '25, Director of intramural Athletics, who is prominent in Harvard baseball history sates: "The idea is probably in accordance with educational theory, but there seem to be not a few practical objections to it. The game cannot be likened to a course examination because the former concerns a group directly, while the latter is the affair of an individual. If the strategy of the game were the equal concern of every player, this objection could be set aside. It is, however, impossible to conduct a baseball game with nine men on the strategy board. And therefore the mistakes...
...last year. Large as this sum may seem, it was relatively small, for the Treasury at the same time collected $405,855,475 in back and additional taxes. The refunds amounted to only about 3% of gross tax collections, a margin of error which caused the Treasury no concern...
Less ancient than Scovill, but still old by U. S. standards, is the Schrader concern. In 1844 August Schrader started making diving suits and air pumps, a business that brought him into contact with many of the early rubber experimenters. After making moulds for Dr. Charles Goodyear, Founder Schrader began to manufacture a variety of metal parts for rubber products. When pneumatic tires were made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools...
Although Scovill has been growing since James Mitchell Lamson Scovill brought his name to the button-making concern in 1811, its greatest expansion has been in recent years. In 1862 Chauncey P. Goss (of the famed Connecticut & Yale Goss family) entered the company; in 1900 became its president. The Gosses now have superseded the Scovills as principal stock-holders and officials. At present the one Scovill on the Board is outnumbered by Edward O. Goss (President and son of the first Goss), John H. Goss, Chauncey P. Goss Jr. and G. A. Goss as fellow-directors; William M. Goss, Edward...
...appointment has led the CRIMSON to print an editorial in which allusion is made to "the various groups of alumni who sometimes make the College's rowing policy a matter of concern to themselves." And the CRIMSON goes on, "There still remain vestiges of past rowing history which may hamper the new coach." This editorial and others which have appeared in the CRIMSON indicate that the undergraduate paper suffers from an obsession which is more or less widespread although it has no foundation...