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...three tricky pitchers. Barron, a football man, and Esan Settle are particularly potent with the stick; the longest hit ever made on Grants Field travelled from Settle's bat over the right field bleachers in the second game with Oglethorpe. The boxmen are Dan O'Leary, a south-paw, and Thompson and Collins, Freshmen...
Coach Slattery will play the same team except that Perkins will probably replace Hallowell in right field, as the former is more effective against a south-paw. Felton will have another opportunity to face the hard-hitting Westerners...
...Harvey all were on the nine which last spring defeated the University. Schriver, the left-handed shortstop, is a Californian who has shown up well this spring, and for whom great hopes are held. Besides handling well in the field, he has the ability, rare in a south-paw, of hitting right and left-handed pitchers equally well...
Because the gentle, meek tailor, Androcles, has drawn the thorn from the lion's paw in the jungle, said beast refuses to devour said tailor in the arena. That is the core of the entertainment. The meat is found in the incidentals, which are mainly dialogue. Shaw cares no more for our emotions than for the play, as such, so why should we take it with a long face and call it 'daring dialogue." Nothing of the sort. It is a colossal toying with one fanciful idea after another. Think of a lion out-roaring a Caesar
...strong body in the faculty, headed by a personage of great influence, the aim of which is ultimately to confine Harvard athletics within the limits of Harvard college." The editorial then accuses this faction of working secretly against intercollegiate athletics and of making the athletic committee a cats-paw. This accusation is almost absurd. There are undoubtedly many members of the faculty and overseers who do favor the abolition of intercollegiate games but they have never concealed their hostility. A majority of the faculty, and of the students also, we believe, are in favor of restriction and of the abolition...