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Limitations on the pitcher the hitter's ball, and what naturally followed--overwork--has doomed these great flingers. Committee after committee has honestly been after some system to de-rabbit the pellet and stop turning the game into cricket, but nothing has happened constructively. Perhaps this new pitching rule will help. We can only hope so. Because this is one war we want to keep...
Butterfly chasing is an official minor sport at Harvard in the form of lacrosse. The squad is composed of soccer players who, armed with a new weapon, chase the pellet about the Business School Field...
General Electric Co.'s laboratories in Schenectady last week demonstrated (see cut, p. 23) a tiny magnet, about the size of a pellet of buckshot, holding aloft a five pound flatiron. The magnet weighs about one-sixteenth of an ounce. The maximum ratio of lifted load to magnet weight is 1,500 to i, highest in the annals of engineering. Thus General Electric's mighty mite is the most powerful permanent magnet on record...
...Forbes, riding at the number one post for Harvard, led the Crimson scoring with six goals, tying Cadet West for scoring honors. Gay Dillingham at number two, wafted the willow pellet through the posts twice to complete the Harvard tallying...
...real threats. Once when their ace runner Al Wilson broke away from all but Macdonald to make a first down on the Crimson 37-yard stripe, and again in the early part of the fourth period when a succession of runs and Anderson-Snavely passes put the pellet on Harvard's 21. On both occasions the Crimson rose and held, the second threat ending when Don Daughters, playing his top game of the year, smothered Anderson before he could get off on an end-zone heave...