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...over the mythical championship starts, the head-start of these two teams will without doubt be of value. Penn State's string of ten straight victories is undeniably a real achievement, and in spite of the fact that a number of the nines defeated are not on the top rung of college baseball teams, such respectable teams as Navy and Georgetown are included on the list. However, Penn State's first real opposition will not come till May 11 when it meets the fast-moving Tigers...
This anomaly, however, is easily explained by considering certain subsidiary features of the two political systems. In the United States, for example, the political curses honorum might be likened to a tall laddor which the politician, starting ordinarily at the bottom ascends rung by rung. The climb is long, laborious, and slow. The educated American, ever impatient of results, is not temperamentally equipped for the task, and easily deviates into fields where his ability will reap him a more speedy and direct compensation. On the other hand, the political apprenticeship of the Englishman is of short duration. He serves first...
...ball-room luminaries; and the influence of the typical Broadway musical comedy, completed the wreck. The personnel was chosen with an eye for pleasing these feminine sycophants. The performance was lightly considered; the real work of the evening began on the waxed floor after the final curtain had rung down. The play itself was pitifully colorless: an unmitigated burlesque from its slap-stick dialogue to the heavyweight wrestler who, resplendent in pink tights and a blonde wig, tripped coyly around an umbrela, designed as a parasol, and sang about the pattering raindrops, as a member of the pony chorus...
...University eleven finished at the bottom rung of the league ladder this year, however, in spite of the fact that it showed itself to be a team that in many years would be worthy of a better standing. At present, Pennsylvania and Princeton are the two contestants for the league championship; Penn having to defeat Haverford before it can meet the Tiger eleven. This game should be an easy victory for the Penn team, on the strength of past performances, but in case of an unexpected defeat, Princeton will win the intercollegiate title...
...game long. Finley, who played at left and during the second half, made the stellar catch of a toss from Buell--for all the world like the Felton-Casey heave against Yale last year, both in execution, and in the selfsame part of the field. Thrice Finley nipped end rung in the bud for losses of five or six yards a throw...