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There is a host approaching nigh...
...week's rowing ended yesterday with eleven crews on the river, four from the University squad and seven from the Freshman. The water was rough and choppy, and good feathering was well nigh impossible. For the first time this year the John Harvard was put in commisison, from the bow of which Conch Stevenson was able to watch the rowing of the Freshmen...
There is a host approaching nigh...
...reason for Harvard's excellent showing was an improvement in team work. Individually, the team is very strong, but until Saturday team work had been lacking. Yale did its best work on line plays. They failed to make a single successful forward pass, but the team work was well nigh perfect. Captain Kilpatrick at left halfback and Mersereau at right tackle were in every play for Yale and, together with Hopkins, were the stars of the team...
...world in that time--changes political, social, material. Mighty agencies unknown, not dreamed of, when the Constitution was framed are common-place now. The most momentous problems of our day had no existence for the statesmen of that earlier day. Govermental machinery almost indispensable today would have been well nigh useless then. In many respects conditions are entirely changed. If the constitution-makers of the past and widely-different age provided for the exigencies of this period, of whose many new things and new conditions they did not and could not know, happy chance or the direct agency of omniscience...