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Coach Hal Ulen's mermen were in top form when they met the Eli swimmers last Saturday at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, but the vaunted Eli power crushed them into a 48 to 27 defeat. The predominantly Freshmen team, captained by Frank Krayer, fought hard gainst the veteran Yale Varsity, spurred on by the feeling which always accompanies a Crimson-Blue match...
...City of Durham is in spots an unspoiled medieval museum piece in the heart of the Newcastle coal country. The crowning glory of unspotted Durham is its thousand-year-old cathedral ("half Church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scots") from which warrior monks, centuries ago, issued to battle against marauding Border chieftains. Last week Durham Cathedral's Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington sallied forth to battle again, against a new incursion. This time the enemy was a power plant...
...sail 'gainst England...
...Gainst his brother Duke Clarence some charges were found...
...well' let them write, and 'Walk slow'; "Surely let them get by with 'If that wasn't so-' "Let us write a nice list of mistakes they can use, "And publish a broadside 'gainst those who enthuse "About writing correctly; we simply can't bother. "But for all unmistakable errors-well, rather! "We'll cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition...