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When the Freshman seven meets the Yale 1921 hockey team today, the old battle is again resumed between Cambridge and New Haven. We have had only one glimpse of that always interesting dual contest so far this year, and that was when the Freshman football team was persuaded that Yale was superior last fall. That defeat is not a stain to be wiped out, but it remains a disappointment which we should like to forget through the result of today's game. The war has made us fairly liberal in athletics, and we now maintain publicly that we want...
Tomorrow evening Technology swimmers will meet the Amherst team in the Boston Y.M.C.A. A later contest is scheduled with Wesleyan at Middletown and arrangements are being made for taking up the races with Yale, which were postponed because of the fuel shortage. Yale is now tied with Princeton and Columbia for the swimming championship between those colleges...
...regrettable that an ideal system of informal sports will not live at Cambridge. We are athletically spoiled by watching huge contests on whose outcome championships are at stake; we have been brought up on the idea of the importance of the Yale game and with it gone our whole system breaks down. The candidate for a team wants to get into the big game, and when the final contest turns into a struggle with some preparatory school or service organization, the whole cause for training seems to him wasted. From the observer's point of view, the informal system...
...Yale has been resumed and a race with Pennsylvania is now proposed for May 11. Under the administration of Professor Abbot, who is coaching the crew, negotiations have also been taken up with Princeton and the University. University and Freshman events are desired and possibly and second crew contest. The races would probably not be rowed at New London, but at Housatonic, Yale's new course on the Caries River...
...subject for the triangular debate has not been announced. Because of the request of the debating authorities at Yale, the question for this debate will not be given out until March 5. Thus each team will have only 1 days in which to prepare for the final contest...