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...basketball team that faces Yale at New Haven tonight has a heavy burden to carry. After a lapse of fourteen years we are resuming, more or less as novices, a game that has been played at Yale much more regularly, and is recognized at many other colleges on a par with the major sports. The players must not only uphold Harvard's athletic prowess over an old rival; they have the added tasks of justifying their existence as a minor sport and of arousing the interest and support--somewhat lacking now--which will be the basis for future successful teams...
...first play of the game, and although the visitors tied the score early in the contest, they never were able to forge ahead. The University captain played a stellar game at right forward, tallying six baskets from the floor and running up a total of eleven points out of fourteen free tries from the foul line. Excellent long shooting by Fowler and Smith, the Clark right forward and center, featured the offensive play of the Worcester team but, by the second half, the Crimson backfield solved their opponents' attack and held them to three baskets...
...local encyclopedia, the University Catalogue, devotes fourteen pages to the subject of Prizes. Aside from the thousands of dollars awarded annually in the form of scholarships or financial Aids, this large number of prizes is given solely as reward for specific achievements in a scholarly or literary field. These honors may be won by every imaginable form of intellectual activity: there are two for music, two for poetry, several for debating and oratory, several for scholarship in specified subjects, and many for essays, theses, or dissertations on any topic from political science to literature. The most famous and most valued...
...list of needs could be extended almost indefinitely. It would seem ungracious of the University at this time to make any general appeal for funds for these purposes, when the Harvard alumni have so recently rallied to its support and, given almost fourteen million dollars to enable it to carry on its work. But the fact remains that the service which the University can render to its members and to the community is in many respects seriously limited by inadequate equipment, and we wish the limitations might speedily be done away with
...Fourteen players of the University soccer team will leave this noon to face the Princeton eleven at Princeton at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning in the second league game of the season...