Word: gray
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Previously, undergraduates were given little opportunity to choose a slate of Varsity Club officers, and their nominating innovation comes as a result of the recommendations of the Students Council Committee for improvement of the Varsity Club. The retiring undergraduate officers are Sherman Gray '41, Donald A. Donahue '41, and J. Prentice Willetts...
Behind the pitching and hitting of Sexton, and some surprising hurling by Sophomore Will Gray, the Indians have fought their way up from a last place tie with Columbia to an undisputed position in the second place. Sexton played right field and batted in two runs, while Harris was outpitching Harrison for a 2 to 0 victory over the Bulldogs...
...crews which stand between Captain Sherm Gray and another undefeated season are Navy and Penn this Saturday, Cornell and Syracuse a week later, and finally Yale at New London. Since Harvard has beaten Princeton, and the Tigers have either beaten all the rest of the Crimson's opponents, or won from crews which have defeated Harvard's future rivals, it would appear that there isn't much the side of the West Coast to press the Crimson. Hut many are sadder who thought that the better crew on paper was naturally better on water...
Wrote Columnist Raymond Clapper: "I saw President Roosevelt at his regular press conference this week, and the weight of his burden is plainly written on his face. I have never seen him more drawn, and his color was that fatigue gray which comes from long hours of close work and strain. Mr. Roosevelt is dealing with a vast amount of secret information, and his decisions necessarily often are based upon facts which cannot be publicly known. . . . But here is a question of broad policy, which is tangled up with the issue of whether we fight or not. ... It seems...
...pressure early, then faded badly in the last half mile under the withering pace set by the Tech and Crimson fifties. At Harvard Bridge Johnny Abbot's boat had a quarter-length on the Engineers, but as the two shells came into the finish stroke for stroke the gray-bladed sweeps hit the water last and thrust the M. I. T. boat across the line first, a winner by a scant two feet...