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Yesterday afternoon the University and second crews went out on the river for the first time this season, somewhat later than last year, when the crews were launched on February 19. Both crews used an old barge, which they boarded from the shore near the Weld Boat Club. The work for each eight consisted in rowing twice downstream to the Western avenue bridge and back...
...class sports I realize the value of the training table to be equally great as in the case of the varsity sport; but, as the minor sports are run on a smaller scale, let them have their training table with a proportionately less expensive outlay and make it as near the average board as possible. Thus they would receive all the advantages of this institution and escape all censure for extravagance...
...stories in the number, G. Emerson's "Fantoccini" succeeds in working the reader up to a pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely...
...time handicap cross-country race will be held on March 9, the same day as the Track Carnival. The course will cover about two miles, finishing somewhere near the track on Holmes Field...
Both Turkey and Great Britain are trying to absorb independent Arabia and the Bedoin tribes. Turkey at the same time is killing Arabian commerce by her misrule, and high tariff. Her power, however, will probably be overthrown in the near future by a general revolt of the Arabian tribes. The whole future of Arabia rests on the question whether or not she will exchange her present religion for Christianity. English and American missionaries are trying to solve this problem, and if they continue to equal the splendid devotion of the pioneers in the work, they will undoubtedly solve the problem...