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Down in the cellar of the Luxembourg, Paris, loom the shapes of pictures temporarily stored there until the museum needs them again. Last week, another picture was added to that dim company. It was Whistler's Portrait of His Mother...
Andover tops the list of contesting schools, with 48 entries, while its traditional rival, Exeter, is entering 39 men. Other schools that loom large as interscholastic contenders are Worcester Academy, with 23 entries, Medford High School, with 22, and LaSalle Academy, from Providence, which is bringing a squad of 15 men to the meet...
...century and 220-yard dashes, the hammer throw, the shot put, and the javelin the Harvard Freshmen loom strong, but such Exeter men as Captain O'Neil, Eliot, and Brandenbury make the chances for first honors in the other events appear dim. O'Neil, who in a winter meet last year at Bowdoin scored 25 points himself, is entered in the quarter mile, half mile, and mile events today, and, if previous records can be trusted, should break the tape in each. In the 880-yards run he holds the interscholastic record and by making it in 1 minute...
...University men are entered in eleven events, including four relays. All the relay teams should give a good account of themselves, but among the other events only in the shot-put and 45-yard high-hurdles do Harvard representatives loom up as likely medal winners...
Among the outstanding contenders for the high point score in today's and tomorrow's contest California, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Yale loom up large. The west coast team, which will make every effort to repeat its victories of the last two years, will consist of eleven men, nine of whom are field event entrants, the only track event men being a two miler and a high hurdler...