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...Hale House Ball has passed into history. It was learned yesterday that the famous dance, which for the past ten years has preceded either the Harvard-Princeton game or the Harvard-Yale game, depending upon which contest was in Cambridge, will be held no more...
Last week, a new vehicle for the blue-ribbon incentive was brought forward by one Robert S. Hale, Chairman of a committee of Harvard Phi Beta Kappa which has been investigating scholarship in secondary schools. Mr. Hale reported and his society adopted a plan for the establishment of an Interscholastic Scholarship Cup, to be contested by teams of students from every high school and academy in the U. S." The award-a bronze plaque-will go to that school whose team passes the seven highest college board examinations each June. The school winning most often in the next seven years...
Urging his plan, Mr. Hale pictured school study-teams going into training, employing coaches, receiving their schoolmates' support (vocal and otherwise), "fighting" for the national scholastic championship as they would for a football title...
...plan adopted, Mr. Hale proceeded to write to 2,500 headmasters and principals, suggesting that they call their boys together, tell them to hold the Scholastic Trophy on a par with the football championship...
...Hale and agile, tanned of face and bright of eye after an invigorating sea voyage following two months abroad, William G. McAdoo last Monday marched down the gangway of the S.S. Leviathan, set foot on Manhattan Island...