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Tale of the Tub. In Wolverhampton, England, Dr. Sidney C. Dyke blamed Britain's threatened water shortage on "the cult of the domestic bath," wrote to the British -Medical Journal: "It is an obvious fallacy that frequent immersion in hot water has any hygienic value whatsoever. Its appeal is purely sensuous...
...Yardlings it is not Yale who presents the problem this afternoon, but the Tigers from New Jersey, who are unbeaten in two meets. Princeton has three top-fight runners who will strongly contest the lead with the freshmen. With the loss of Captain Dyke Benjamin, the freshmen will be hard put to beat the Tiger harriers...
Yardling captain DYKE BENJAMIN will be unable to run in Friday's triangular meet against Princeton and Yale, due to a fractured ankle, it was learned yesterday...
Coach Bill McCurdy has seven top runners who start in every race, assuming they are free from sickness. Captain Dyke Benjamin, Bill Gillen, Jim Schlaeppi, and Bill Thompson are regular scorers. The fifth scoring post is generally alternated between Mack Brown, Al Gordon, and Larry Jaquith...
Winning by an unexpectedly large score, 16-43, the Yardlings left Dartmouth to nurse its first defeat of the year. Jim Schlaeppi, Dyke Benjamin, Bill Gillen, and Hank Brown copped the decisive first four places for the Crimson...