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...University crew defeated Cornell on Saturday over the one and seven-eighths mile course in the basin by 37 seconds, which under the prevailing Weather conditions represents a full 10 lengths. The decisive nature of this victory is to be accounted for by saying that the University crew proved better and the Cornell crew worse than expectations. Although the crews' chances were estimated as equal, and the high wind was even considered to give the advantage to the superior watermanship of Cornell, the University boat took the lead at the very start and crossed the finishing line without ever being...
...this point the visiting crew made a desperate effort to make good its loss, but in vain, as the University crew continued to draw away. By the time the finishing line was reached, the crew was 10 lengths to the good, and finished with a lively spurt, 17 full strokes ahead of Cornell. The Harvard time was 10 minutes, 47 seconds; Cornell's time was 11 minutes, 24 seconds...
...figure which at the outset was not even animate, create a situation the acting success of which it is all but impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that, as a reading play, it holds the attention with a firm grip, that it is full of action, humor, and skillfully maintained suspense, and that, as we have come to expect in Mr. MacKaye's work, the lines contain, especially towards the close, much poetical thought and fine imaginative expression. Finally, the drama is marked by a quite extraordinary intensity,-an intensity which not only permeates...
...responsibility that inspires the efforts of the few, there is no doubt that class enterprises would be more satisfactory and more enjoyable. If Seniors could be persuaded to hang together and follow the leader, their personal enjoyment would scarcely be lessened, and they would be given the College the full benefit of four years of valuable experience...
...changed an experiment into an undisputed success: The object for which the series was instituted has been more than attained and many men have put in a pleasant evening and gained at the same time an intelligent appreciation of music, not in its lighter form, but in the full "dignity of the art." Judging by the size of the audiences, Mr. Whiting has succeeded in imparting an education in classical and modern music, to accompany what he has termed the more tangible and available arts, Painting, Sculpture, Literature and Architecture...