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Five of the seeded players in the University tennis tournament have entered the round before the semi-finals without mishap. Today or tomorrow will witness the first matches between them. In the doubles, Alden Briggs 1G.B. and G. H. Perkins '26 took a close match from G. D. Debevoise '26 and P. R. Pease '26, 8-6, 6-2 entering the semi-finals. All doubles matches must be played up to the fourth round it was announced by Lyon Boston '26, manager of the tournament...
...still, showed the Maude 15 or 20 feet out of water, hanging on ice-hummocks listing 40 after mighty movements of the pack. Stoutly girded, round-bottomed as a watermelon, armored with wooden walls a yard thick, the Maude had slid or crashed back to the water again without mishap every time, though on some occasions blasting powder was required for the relaunching...
...trip, with provisions for six weeks, turned northward on a 700-mile trip to the North Pole. They should have wade it in eight or nine hours, they might have returned in as many hours more. But they did not. They kept the world waiting. They might have suffered mishap and be trekking back. They might have descended at the Pole, as they hoped to do, for scientific purposes. Yet the chances "of finding a landing field from which they could rise again were small. If they landed and could rise again, how long would they tarry for scientific observations...
Except for his mishap in French- farcically supposed to have been due to a Democratic professor-John Coolidge has commended himself to the famed little New England College. He will never play on an important varsity team. But he sings first bass in the glee club and may eventually become its leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox...
Lieutenant Wade was the pilot of the aeroplane "Boston" which met with a mishap, which almost proved fatal, on the home lap of the trip while crossing the Atlantic Ocean from England. This was only one of the many experiences which he went through in the eventful flight which encircled the globe for the first time in history...