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Finley (E) defeated Thackara (W), 3-1; Coolidge (E), Peet (W), match postponed; Mason (E), Ross (W), match postponed; Plumb (E) defeated Williams (W), 3-0; Dane (E) defeated Kellogg...
...virtue of their attainments. Yet because of the distribution and concentration requirements there is no escaping them. A few undergraduates, more fortunate than the rest, are aware of the heights which an occasional section man attains; the majority are only too well aware of the depths which they usually plumb...
...favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back to lay neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons on the cuffs - no outside plumb ing. . . ." But the very latest in fashions was the cocktail suit and the champagne coat. The cocktail suit, worn only between 4:30 and 6 of an afternoon, has a soft roll lapel in grey, blue-grey, blue or brown, with trousers of worsted in similar colors. Only a derby...
...Dorson (H) defeated Hunt 15-12, 15-9, 15-12. Wolcott (BH) defeated T. Sherwin 11-18, 16-15, 15-12, 15-11. Hallowell (BH) defeated A. L. Keyes 15-9, 15-8, 8-15, 10-15, 18-15. Saltonstall (BH) defeated J. H. Plumb 15-11, 10-15, 15-12, 15-13. Howe (BH) defeated F. A. Johnson...
...Vagabond began armed with the firm resolve to provide his gentle readers with an introduction to Professor Boring's lecture on Night Vision. It seemed proper to have a slight knowledge of the subject, something awe-in-spring even if superficial. So he set out, diligently to plumb Night Vision's mysteries. His searching hand paused before the shelf and drew down "The Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index...