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Springfield College has played only three teams, none of which have been met by the Crimson men. Le Bleu is outstanding and will probably shoot the fouls. In a game with Williston Seminary he succeeded in scoring on ten out of fourteen free tries...
...against the M. I. T. sextet, the University hockey team yesterday afternoon prepared for tomorrow evening's contest with the Engineers at the Arena. Captain Owen and Joseph Larocque Jr. '23, regular center on the University sextet, were the only members of the squad, which has been cut to fourteen men, who did not report yesterday. Owen is suffering from a slight cold, which will not, however, keep him out of tomorrow's contest. Larocque, whose cold is somewhat worse, will probably be out until Saturday...
...prepared are not above the capacity of "any youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other two. And the report which he quotes, also, refers only to scholarship plus a negative quality called...
...mean a macadam highway within the next decade, of course, and anyone who has ever had more than a passing acquaintance with tractors is unlikely to choose them for pleasure-driving. Supply stations have been established for the first six hundred miles, but after that everything must be carried. Fourteen hundred miles, as the illustrious Governor of North Carolina might remark with justice, is a long way between drinks...
...with flint and steel because the matches are in the next room. The increase in participants in athletics is undoubtedly desirable but it is equally possible under the present system. In 1876 there were constant appeals for more candidates for crew because a winning eight was impossible with only fourteen candidates. Last spring crew drew over a hundred and fifty upper classmen: and the other major sports vary from fifty upward. The trouble is not with them for they care for their share already...