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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale strength is credited mainly to its individual stars. Probably the best known of the outfit is Carr, former Hill School athlete and Olympic try out contestant, who has pole-vaulted 13 feet and thrown the javelin over the 170 foot mark. Next ranking in fame are Larson and Edwards, of Mercersberg Academy, who have both high jumped over six feet...
...large and insoluble questions, especially to the undergraduate in the second year of his college course. But it is the business of philosophy to deal with large and perhaps insoluble questions to view human knowledge and the universe as in no sense finished, to put a question mark where many people would be willing to finish the sentence. Moreover, it is the business of the undergraduate to ask large and insoluble questions. He often finds himself doing so till late at night over a wood fire with his friends. And it is the business of the professor of philosophy...
...exercises, which mark the admittance of the Senior members of the chapter who are elected on Commencement Day, will take place in Sanders Theatre. Mr. Finley, whose son, J. H. Finley '25, is at present a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, has been eminent in education and journalism since his graduation from Knox College in 1897. He has held at various times the positions of editor of Harpers Weekly, president of Knox College, president of the College of the City of New York, professor of social science at Princeton, and editor of the New York Times, the last...
Merrill was content with rowing stroke for stroke with Princeton down the course. Both crews held the beat at a steady thirty-two, with Harvard pulling gradually ahead of Princeton and Yale slipping back. Nearing the one and one-quarter mile mark Harper called for the final spurt and open water began to show between the two leading shells. As the finish line was reached. Merrill's crew was fast drawing away...
...pound event was the third of a program out of four, and Yale showed a decided superiority over Princeton and Cornell. The first Yale crew in winning from Cornell by only six seconds had the smallest margin of victory. This perhaps might be called a low-water mark in Yale rowing in recent years, for usually Yale leads her rivals by a greater margin. It must be taken into consideration, however, that Spock, the number seven man of the Olympic crew, was forced out of the boat earlier in the week with a sprained ankle, and that his place...