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...publisher after another to print his book on the "Influence of Sea Power on History", but all in vain, so that he was on the point of giving up the attempt, when Parkman, it is said, persuaded Little, Brown and Company to take it. Even then it had a scant sale, until its merit was recognized in England, and in a few years he became the American best known abroad. To come nearer home, our late benefactor, Henry L. Higginson, in early life studied music for several years in Europe, but finding himself unfitted for a musical career, came home...
...superior fielding of the University baseball team was not sufficient to check the aggressive Williams nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Purple finally winning by the scant margin of two runs to one. It was a pitching battle all the way between Herrmann and Clement, both men holding their opponents to six singles. Clark played a brilliant game for the Crimson by making several spectacular catches that deprived the Purple of apparently sure runs. Buck was the individual star for the visitors, cutting short the University's one opportunity to tie the score in the last of the seventh...
Rough weather prevailed generally on the Basin yesterday during an afternoon replete with races ranging all the way from an interdormitory affair to the University-Freshman tussle. The latter contest went to the 1926 crew by a good two lengths, Senior A nosed out Sophomore A by a scant 8 feet, University B and C raced to a dead heat, and Gore won decisively from the Standish and Smith Halls eights. In addition to the home program, the second Freshman eight made a trip to Groton and lost to the schoolboys by a quarter length...
...completed the day's program, began, the Freshmen were leading by 8 2-3 points, the score standing at 67 1-3 to 58 2-3. M. A. Cheek Jr., the only possible Crimson point-winner in the event, fell short of the third best Yale distance by a scant two inches, and all three places went to the Blue team, giving them a victory with a count...
Freshman four-oared crew D, which has defeated the Exeter seconds and lost to Middlesex, added another victory to its record when it nosed out the Noble and Greenough four-oared boat by a scant half-length. The race was held over the half-mile course above the Infirmary. Gore crew A reached the finish in the interdormitory race less than half a length in the lead of Standish A over the Henley distance. The Smith crew A was in third place, close behind Standish...