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Each team will be composed of not more than seven men, and the first five to finish from each team will count in the scoring. As in the Yale run, first place will count one point, second two, and so on, the team scoring the least number of points winning. A banner will be given to the winning team. The course, which is the same as last year, is three miles long and will be covered twice during the race...
...Weld Memorial, in memory of Mrs. Brandegee's grandfather, William Fletcher Weld, the donor of Weld Hall. The collection, consisting of 11,880 volumes, is from the library of Richard H. Bowie of Philadelphia. There is no room in Gore Hall at present for such a great number of books, and they are stored temporarily in the basement of one of the College dormitories...
...Greek and Latin authors, mainly in eighteenth century editions of great value. In the Bowie catalogue there were listed 433 books printed before 1500, the work of 160 different printers. This addition more than doubles the former collection of such books, and probably gives the College Library the largest number of these early works of any public library in the country. Next to the classics in numbers come the works of the mediaeval Latin writers. There are also many standard works in French and English, as well as numerous curious and rare volumes...
...snowshoe steps to the metre of his song, he must be an adept at the sport. A ski on a fair incline could hardly keep pace with it. As a picture, though, of pine forest in winter, it is not without atmosphere provided one shows up the cinematograph. The number is brought to a close by a couple of book reviews
...policies of the undergraduates who were placed in charge of the Freshman squad; on the contrary, it has proved valuable to them in countless ways. The Freshman team broke a string of defeats last Saturday. It met a team which heavily outweighed it and which had the usual number of exceptional individual players. Without detracting the slightest credit from the team itself, it is a feather in the caps of the men who worked with the team as well as a vindication of the present organization...