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...work of the crews during the past week has been very satisfactory. All the boats have improved rapidly, and the races this afternoon promise to be very close. The general tendencies to wash out and clip the stroke at the finish are much less noticeable. All the men have been reporting regularly and the coaches have had a better opportunity to get the men swinging together. The Randolph and Westmorly crews have been doing promising work and should make a good showing...
During the past week the football team has improved greatly from its showing in the Annapolis game. This improvement was especially noticeable in the game with Bucknell last Saturday. Here, spite of the soggy field and the drizzling rain which fell continuously throughout both halves, the backfield played with a snap and vigor that carried the Bucknell team off its feet. Around the ends and through the line they went with equal case, and this continued when the entire second string of backs had gone in. The linemen played low and hard, and put up such a strong defense that...
University interest during the past week has centered chiefly in the daily practice of the university football team. Coach Rockwell worked the squad very hard, paying especial attention to the forward passes and the defense. No particular changes have been made in the line-up. T. A. D. Jones, at quarterback, is out of the game for a few days, suffering from a leg injury. The rest of the team are in the pink of condition. Scrimmages against the college and freshman elevens have been held daily and a large corps of graduate coaches have been supervising the various departments...
...Intercollegiate Golf Tournament, played at Garden City, during the past week, Yale's team, composed of W. E. Clow, Jr., '07, R. Abbott '08, D. Partridge L.S.'08, E. Knowles '08, W. W. Howland, S.'08 and G. V. Rotan S.'07, won the championship. Robert Abbott '08 of Plainfield, N. J., was elected captain. D. Partridge and W. E. Clow, Jr., of Yale played in the individual finals, Clow winning...
This is a world of startling possibilities in which nature ever meets us with wondrous surprises. Again and again fertile minds startle us with inventions which would have seemed supernatural to the past generation. Is it too much to suppose that in the higher realms of a world where "truth is stranger than fiction" we may not discover the great truth of Immortality? Hope cannot live without immortality, and life cannot go on without hope...