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...bombardment of Harvard shots in the last two minutes failed to drop through the hoop and the final whistle found the Crimson quintet trailing the Pennsylvania five 26 to 24 last night in the most bitterly contested struggle of the season...
...free throw. The Crimson could not break through the visitors' five-man defense, but with less than half a minute to go, Crane fouled Leekley, giving the latter two shots with the outcome of the game hinging upon his success. He dropped the first cleanly through the hoop, tying the score. The second, which would bring victory, struck the iron, wavered on the edge, and dropped outside the net, making a second extra period necessary...
...gratifying to note that after May third, seniors at Yale may own and drive motorcars. It is the existence of privileges like this, and the hoop-rolling at Wellesley, and the right of unsocking all brown-socked, freshman sons of old Nassau, which make the splendid traditions of our colleges what they are today...
...assure themselves of a congenial evening's entertainment, needless to say, their interests differ widely: followers of William S. Hart are bored by a modern "problem play"; advocates of Burton Holmes contemptuously turn up their noses at lovely lingerie, and Mark Sennet enthusiasts fall asleep rather than see a hoop-skirt. Theatre-owners, realizing that it is all a matter of taste, and that the fewer discontented patrons, the better the business, advertise their programs by flaring posters. Hence, it is really one's own fault if he sees a moving picture that doesn't appeal to him. Furthermore...
Among the specialty numbers will be one in which four members of the female chorus will dance in hoop-skirts and the accompanying dress of the nineteenth century, and a second where another quartet will enact a burlesque on Joseph,, Alger '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will present a specialty number, a take off on the Duncan sisters...