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Apparently all are agreed that the best sports for the College are those in which the most men are engaged. Of these sports tennis provides exercise for the largest number. Three hundred and eighty-nine men played on the University courts yesterday, and this number is slightly below the average. As a rule, about half of the courts are in use during the forenoon, but all are being played on continuously during the afternoon, and, including both fields, there is generally a waiting list of between...
...membership of the Aeronautical Society has grown until now it is the largest of any aero club in America. In the winter the society was incorporated, and has at present the honor of being the only college organization affiliated with the Aero Club of America. Its outlook for next fall appears very bright...
...finest spirit into a young and inexperienced team, got the best work out of it, and won. In hockey, the University team showed great and efficient strength. In track athletics, the team lost the dual games with Yale, but came out first at the intercollegiate track meet with the largest score on record. In rowing, the University won its race with Yale handsomely. In baseball, the team was brought into its best form too early, and though it had almost unexampled success with Princeton, lost to Yale. Thus, though the baseball season was in several ways disappointing, the most...
...Gardner, Jr., '10 was the largest point winner, making 10 points for his class. Gardner was not pushed but won the low hurdles in the good time of 25 1-5 seconds. The most closely contested race of the afternoon was the 440-yard dash won in 52 2-5 seconds by H. W. Kelley '11. The best time under the existing conditions was made in the mile by H. Jaques, Jr., '11 who won in 4 minutes, 33 3-5 seconds. By winning the 220-yard dash L. Watson '10, gains possession of the Lathrop cup, offered...
...Shaw had acquired. With his arrival there Agassiz began his career in copper mining, in which he continued uninterruptedly for forty-four years. He long survived the term of all his early contemporaries in the direction of that industry in Michigan. During his career he not only developed the largest and most profitable mine in the world's history, but also achieved greatness as a geologist, an engineer, a business manager, and the molder of a contented prosperous and orderly community of about forty thousand souls, which during his time grew from a single cabin in the wilderness...