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Sporting new gray and red uniforms, a strong Kirkland House nine defeated Winthrop, 12 to 4, on Soldiers Field yesterday. In other intramural contests, Bob Crichton pitched Eliot to its third straight win, the Mastodons downed Dunster, 16 to 7, i a free-hitting softball fracas, and Leverett defeated Lowell...
With the exception of a slight fracas in 1926, the Station's relations with Harvard students have been calm enough to make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe...
It was a close fracas that had a partisan crowd of about 1000 roaring at the drop of a crossbar, from the opening contests right up to the last event, when Harvard's two-mile relay team of Groshong, Edelman, Withington, and Gurley broke the bulldog's back and clinched...
He needed some reassurance. All week long the Democrats had been snickering as Republicans lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan'...
With the outcome in doubt until the closing minutes of the rough fracas, it was the Crimson's height, fast breaking offense, and accurate shooting that turned the tide.