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...time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will be, like cricket, football, rackets, and rowing, a means of scoring off the rival institution. They will be respectable. Those who cultivate them will no longer be despised; they will be admired. On the day when the London newsboys are heard shouting "Oriental Languages "Result!" or "Natural Philosophy Winners!" a new era will have begun...
Playing on the grass courts at Longwood Cricket Club Saturday afternoon, two members of the University tennis team were instrumental in gaining victory for Boston in the Church Cup competition with New York and Philadelphia. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, Crimson No. 1 man, and M. T. Hill '30, No: 2, both scored triumphs over Quaker singles stars in three set matches to add the necessary points for a Boston win. The results gave the local squad the decision five matches to four...
...three-foot putts. The crowd, usually annoyed by Hagen's lolling walk, his smile, his Americanisms, his arrogance, and his frequent cigarets, was cheering him now for being a sport; when he played out of a bunker at the twelfth, a retired major with an umbrella shouted "Good cricket" and was silenced by the hisses of people who were afraid his enthusiasm would disturb Hagen's putting. The match ended at the 55th hole with Hagen 18 down...
...With the exception of the second episode which is highly improbable the production is made lifelike and real. One does not wonder that the devoutly religious lady protects the convict with a lie, and that the parson is prevented from doing so only by the escape himself who "plays cricket"--gives himself up. Any of the audience would have done likewise...
Last year's stellar twirlers, F. V. Field '27, and J. F. Barnes '27, are missing and now are counted among the leading cricket bowlets, Sheep and Goats Club, Hard Riding, Hants, England. The sterling combination of H. W. Foote '27 and D. S. Gibbs '27 will be missed at short and second. The position of Gibbs, who has graduated to the big time circuits, is perhaps the most difficult to fill...