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Harry Cowles' Varsity tennis team suffered its first defeat of the year yesterday afternoon when a strong North Carolina aggregation edged the Crimson 5-4. Although Harvard was able to sweep the three doubles encounters, the outcome of the match was already settled with the visitors annexing five of the six singles...
Facing the Big Green on their home field the Varsity stickmen went down to defeat Saturday afternoon to the score of 11 to 2. Only Hunsaker's two tallies in the final period prevented the shutout which the Indians maintained from the first period...
...lacrossemen found themselves on the short end of a 10 to 3 score against Andover last Saturday. Against the Blue's superior team work the Freshman were hampered by the less of George Hanford in the goal and Dean Morse in defense position. This teams marks the second Yearling defeat of the season in four starts...
...article on War in Spain TIME, April 18, is a prize sentence ending "the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory." While they are in there they ought to hammer a couple of nice little wooden pegs in the Eustachian tubes. That would fix them...
Shantung Campaign. The historic first defeat in modern times of a major Japanese force, when Chinese fortnight ago drove the invaders out of Taierhchwang and chased them 20 miles back into Yihsien, brought down overwhelming Japanese reinforcements from Tsinan and Tsingtao last week. These raised the siege of Yihsien, from which 20,000 Chinese retreated, and approximately 150,000 Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese...