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...could not have been desired. The very unfortunate weather conditions were as unfavorable to one crew as to the other and it is a source of satisfaction to the rowing authorities to win in rough water and reverse last year's result, when Cornell won at Ithaca by a scant margin through better oarsmanship in a choppy...
...Freshman race was a runaway for Harvard, after the first relay. Sweetser took the lead at the start and finished a scant yard ahead of Baird of Yale. On the next relay, Steinhardt increased the Harvard lead to 10 yards over Murray. In the last two relays Johnson and Foster rapidly drew away from their opponents, P. Kirjassoff and Short, and gave the race to the Harvard Freshmen by nearly half a lap. The time, 3 minutes, 16 3-5 seconds, was 3 2-5 seconds slower than that of the 1910 team last year...
...material which has thus far reported for the University football team is on the whole far too light. Indeed, the material for line positions has been so scant that we have been unable to try out much of the material for other positions. Everybody who weighs over 150 pounds ought to be out. The undergraduate body as a whole should see that such men come out and in this way they will help us out of our present difficulty. HATHERLY FOSTER...
Squires with Hurley dragging him went through the middle of the line for 6 yards, and then for two. Lockwood followed with a scant yard...
...examples of serious Advocate verse have shown less straining after effect or more real beauty of simplicity than "The Sculptor of Milos," by Charles Wharton Stork. The central idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...