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...charge of her baseball organization the man and the policy that have brought success to her football. Nor was Harvard winning her baseball victories by luck while Yale was losing. Every graduate and undergraduate knows that Harvard has not won by luck, that she has won not infrequently with poorer teams, and that she has won because at the head of her baseball was an older head and practically the same directing hand year by year, and because under this head Harvard baseball had a continuous, business-like and intelligent policy...
...order named. The desirability of the seats will decrease directly as the number of seats ordered is increased; that is, an applicant for one seat only will be assured of getting one of the best seats on the field, while an applicant for four seats will probably receive poorer ones, provided any seats remain...
...noticeable in the other crews. The Freshmen at both clubs have been slow in developing owing to the fact that they have suffered frequent changes in order. A number of the best men are on probation and for this reason it has been necessary to fill their places with poorer material. Both crews have improved slowly, but are still poor in their watermanship...
...second round in the basket-throwing contest last night resulted in a tie between R. B. Gring '05 and H. R. Snyder '05, each having a maximum score of 5 in the two trials. The scores made were even poorer than in the preliminary round. The tie for the trophy will be decided tonight just previous to the practice of the University squad...
...Farming and the keeping of stores and hotels are carried on by the citizens on the basis of a currency of the Republic which when the citizens leave is exchanged for usable articles of one kind or another. As an experiment in training the boys and girls of the poorer classes in practical citizenship, and in developing in character and industrial ability those who would otherwise have been sent to reformatories, the Republic has proved eminently successful...