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After pinning the Bulldog, in his lair last Saturday to finish a moderately successful season, the Varsity wrestlers are in the last throes of training for the New England Intercollegiates, to be run of today and tomorrow at M. I. T. Cliff Gallagher has chosen six men to win honors on the mat, four of the entrants being Varsity lettermen of this season...
With three victories and one defeat in their season's record, the Varsity wrestlers are facing keen competition tonight when they meet the Tiger, whom they tied 14-14 at his lair last year. Princeton is undefeated this year, having won from Rutgers 21-13, from Lafayette 18-8, and from Pennsylvania 17 1/2-10 1/2. Harvard has downed M.I.T. 25-3, Brown 18-6, and Chicago 17-13, losing the Tufts meet...
...most ignorant of Freshmen know, the squirrels that have inhabited the Yard from time immemorial belong to the species known as Sciurus Carolinensis, variety Aptedii. They are large grey beasts, gentle as kittens except when roused, when they display the fury of the tigress defending her lair, and each year they form fast friends among the Freshman class whom they will remember for years, running to them in childish glee...
Meantime devious negotiations were going on for their release, each side trying to out-Orientalize the other. At one point Manchukuoan troops attacked the bandit lair, and in the confusion the captives made their second break for freedom. But they were all caught before they had gone far. As the chase grew hotter the bandits took to land, dragged their prisoners with them on nightly forced marches. Finally, five and a half months after their capture, the ransom was paid and the three Britons were released...
...Gordian knot for which the dull wits of the responsible officials have been no cleaving sword. But a simple man and true, an honest yardcop, the flower of Colonel Apted's force, could shear the tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation. This would shunt all traffic...