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...long victory streak when it faces the Crimson in a meet that is assuming the proportions of the Yale Bowl jinx . . . . the confident, Varsity grapplers face a mediocre Yale team on the Medford mat and Harvey Ross faces the best wrestler in New England at his weight in the Jumbo 118 pound matman . . . . the Polo team will also be at New Haven against the Elis...
Died. Mrs. Fannie Rosenberg, 62, mother of Showman Billy Rose (Jumbo, Fort Worth Centennial); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...
Much mumbo jumbo is heard about the important function of these institutions of higher learning in correlating and organizing the work in some of the more anarchic courses, or in helping the Freshman to find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...
This mumbo jumbo confusion of classics and culture is just the sort of thing which Harvard's bewhiskered sages like to pin on poor, confused President Hutchins out at Chicago. It is too bad we have to look at it here. They might give the non-Latinists diplomas written in English, or something like that...
...both games Harvard had the better of the play, but in each case the winning break failed to materialize. Twice kicks by Jim Wood failed by inches, while the Yardlings going with the wind in the second period were all over the Jumbo cage without being able to get the ball...