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First Straw. As everyone knows, cane sugar producers in Louisiana must fight diseases, blights. Untiringly, U. S. government experts have sought hardier, sturdier varieties of cane. And last week the Department of Agriculture announced results of an 11,100-mile tour of exploration through Papua and New Guinea, by air plane, canoe, foot. Explorer E. W. Brandes had discovered 167 varieties of sugar cane...
...most probably find two newcomers to these parts on the field. E. R. Todd '29, a regular on the second University team who was recently promoted to the field squad, is likely to alternate with A. G. Whitney '29 in the left field region, usually covered by W. S. Hardier '30. F. B. Cutts '28, one of the leading members of the Harvard pitching staff, will be given a workout in right field. He has been hitting consistently in the last few engagements...
...names to the annals of Air and of Empire. But both are already known to fame. Last year they sat side by side above London, the nose of their plane tilted up till it set a new altitude-record for Moths. Lithe Lady Sophie is admittedly the hardier-first woman to loop the loop in England. In a cruel speed-race she zoomed to the finish line a few yards ahead of Lady Mary, who had been leading. But it was the International League of Aviators which threw the apple of discord into the air; it pronounced Lady Mary...
Asked which he thought more strem: ous, football or boxing, Sharkey answered. "I think playing football is hardier than boxing, and I was fullback on the Navy team A boxer can run around the ring and then rest, but there's no rest in football Besides college training is stricter than a boxer...
...hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true to a certain extent; they are a hardier race beyond a doubt; but, on the other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling...