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Cochet, drawn and listless after an attack of influenza, lost his first match in straight sets to an obscure English player named Nigel Sharpe; Mangin lost to Rogers and Rogers lost to Satoh; George Lott was beaten by Harold Lee. Shields, who had never played at Wimbledon be- fore, and Wood were the gallery's favorites. Wood beat the champion of Spain, Eduard Maier, in a straight-set match watched by onetime King Alfonso. Shields, whose resemblance to Wimbledon's favorite William Tatem Tilden II and the fact that he was the first seeded U. S. player, made...
...beginning of the final examination period brings to the fore an inconsistency and an injustice which has been evident since the Reading Period was first established. Ostensibly instituted for original and supplementary study, and in the main used for such work, the Reading Period also serves two other purposes no less admirable. It provides a brief period for intensive review with the days free from the interrupting routine of lectures; it also presents an opportunity for one or two, or a few, or many days of leisure...
...windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds to the field horses and one absurd long shot, Prince...
...Foreign Affairs, and consequently none of their subordinates, can lay down a plan of work to cover months in advance because changing conditions and new elements are sure to arise at any moment and any scheme proposed will be interfered with before it can come to fruition. There fore, in practice, the conduct of foreign affairs takes on something of a juridical character, in that the persons concerned must endeavor to settle cases as they arise, considering both precedent and expediency in the light of the new conditions which may surround the problem at the moment of decision...
...cost of going to Harvard College was discussed in the light of the approaching fulfillment of the House Plan, together with rumors and stories concerning the paradoxical situation of the new houses--oversubscribed, but still unfilled--have brought the financial aspect of going to Harvard College into the fore-ground as never before. Another contribution to the discussion is added in this week's issue of the Alumni Bulletin in which Assistant Dean A. E. Hindmarsh has an article entitled, "The Cost of Going to Harvard College...