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Independent investigations made some time ago by President Lowell and by Professor Dexter of the University of Illinois have brought out the surprisingly close correlation between excellence in college studies and the chance of appearing in "Who's Who." This test, although admittedly and imperfect criterion of true achievement, is nevertheless one of the best available indications of leadership in American life. Tabulations involving thousands of college graduates show that the average college man has one chance in fifty of winning his way into this category of the famed. But the chance of the Phi Beta Kappa man is three...
Mile. -- Captain O'Connell, Coolidge, Crosby, Dexter, Mahon, Nally, Reycroft and Shepley...
...yard dash, the 880-yard run, and the 3-mile run. There are also entries in the 50-yard hundles and the high-jump. Vinton Chapin '23, E. B. Jourdain '21 and C. H. Wansker '23 are the Crimson's best entries in the dash. C. E. Dexter '22, T. D. Cairns '23, John Shepley '21 and J. E. Nally '21 are the University runners most likely to show in the 880. H. M. Mahon '22 and C. E. Reycroft '21 are to run the 3-mile distance, and will bear watching...
...fourth man will be chosen after time trials which, will be held at noon today. C. E. Dexter '22, W. C. Bennett '23, H. P. Davis '21, and A. W. Douglass '21, will race the required distance, the first man to finish getting a place on the team...
...which each lap was to be run, planning a race which was to be completed in very good time. All of the first five men to finish came in under this time. The order of finishing was Capt. D. F. O'Connell '21, Bayard Wharton '22, C. E. Dexter '22, J. A. McCarthy '22, W. C. Bennett '23. The first three men are practically sure of a place on the team. H. P. Davis '21, who reported too late to run in the race, was given a time trial, and handed in remarkably good time. He will give Bennett...