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...clearly revealed in the new edition, that things progress fast about us. New clubs have sprung up, or have been revived since the war, and the new photograph of the Union and the article on its activities, mark appropriately how in the last two years it has come nearer than ever before in its history to filling the place in the University for which it was designed. We may read the first complete statement of the undergraduate campaign for the Endowment Fund, and remember that this is only one of the many pages in the book bearing witness...
...defeating Cornell and Syracuse in the N. Y. A. C. Saturday night, the Yale two-mile relay team, composed of Hilles, O'Brien. Siemens and Campbell, moved one step nearer the indoor championship at that distance. The time, 7 minutes 58 1-5 seconds, is within one-fifth of the world's record...
...other technique in the world seems to improve at such a pace as that of war. The Utopia of the artists of war advances daily nearer. General Maitrot, a Frenchman, has made a forecast of the future that is half vision and half possibility. France, he says, has since the armistice developed projectiles so powerful that a dozen of them would wipe out a city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information...
...neat snap from scrimmage. Less than two minutes later a pass out by Emmons from the corner gave him an opportunity to drive a second shot past Root, the Yale goal guard. During the twelve-minute scoreless scramble which followed, Yale never had a chance to shoot from nearer than mid-ice, while only the herculean work of the diminutive Captain Carson kept the Blue goal inviolate...
...declared, "it is possible to go more than 500 miles farther north on the Atlantic side than on the Pacific, due to the fact that the Gulf Stream penetrates much farther north than does the Japan Current in the Pacific, and as a result the open water extends much nearer the Pole. For this reason it means nothing to ask an Arctic explorer how far north he has been...