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Jakko Mikkola, University cross-country coach, expressed complete satisfaction with the condition of his men, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. When asked if he laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point which may affect the success or failure of a runner, but there can be no doubt that Finnish baths tend to take away stiff ness in a man's joints and make the muscles supple, and these are two valuable assets to the men. I think the system should...
Under the direction of Coach Jakko Mikkola, nine members of the Harvard cross-country squad journeyed to Quincy early yesterday morning where they were initiated into the mysteries of the Finnish bath. Captain Tibbetts headed the Crimson squad which included Haggerty, Waters, Novogrod, Barker, Luttman, Kobes, Gordon and Boyce...
...value of the Finnish bath as a conditioning medium was not appreciated by American athletes until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola...
Regular football matches are played off between Finnish and Russian teams. Otherwise, Russians must find competition, like capital, at home. The mass of the population seems to be undergoing "a psychological change very like that through which the luckier sort of European immigrants pass during their first five or ten years in America...
...Story amounts to the candid, cluttered journal of Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, a young man born in Japan of Russian-Scotch-Spanish-Italian-English-Finnish-Swedish ancestry. He is an Oxford intellectual, serious-minded, he feels, but is engaged for the present with a Major Percy Beastly on a mission to Manchuria for the British War Office. In the life of Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, wars and missions are very unimportant indeed: He spends a lot of time thinking about Life and Death, writing or making jokes about them. Nothing is very important...