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...first, second, and third places. In addition to these individual trophies, the team scoring the greatest number of points will hold, for one year, the cup presented by University graduates and members of the Boston Athletic Association. The H. A. A. will also present a shield to be kept permanently by the winning team...
...Filipinos are an industrious, progressive people. For three hundred years they were kept in subjection by Spain and had little chance for development. They had already overthrown the Spanish government when the United States entered the islands. One can buy land but one cannot buy a people. The United States has no moral right to stay in the islands and rule a people against its will. The acquisition of the archipelago was a "bad bargain." We had a duty, however, to perform. That duty is now performed, and it is time for us to leave the Philippines for Filipinos...
...headquarters of the Flying Corps, which will be opened tonight, are rapidly being fitted for the use of the corps. Two needs will be looked after; social and experimental. Books on flying and the foreign periodicals on aviation will be kept on hand. It is probable also that some aeroplane engines will be installed in the rear of the building, for experimental purposes...
Carleton Betts, one of the most dependable ends Yale has recently, has left college, depriving the 1916 eleven of one of its most valuable players. Ill health kept Betts in the infirmary for over two months, and he has recently decided to go into business, although he had been expected to return to college next fall...
...participants, while 42 more men rowed on the crews. Scrub baseball and football alone showed a loss of five men. This does not include the tennis players, except the comparatively few who were candidates for teams. No record of the number of different individuals playing tennis was kept, but the use of the courts during the college year 1913-14 equalled one man for 32,000 hours, while during 1914-15 it equalled one man for 54,600 hours, a gain of 22,600 hours, or an increase of more than 70 per cent...