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...played a splendid game. Jenkins' fielding was very good, while Gordon and Rogers did excellent work at the bat, each getting two, hits, the latter scoring a two-bagger with three men on bases. K. N. Hill and Quill both pitched excellent ball, with the yearlings having a shade the better of it, supported by superior fielding. Hill struck out eleven men and made two hits, while quill Struck out nine...
...being the result of the correction for normal pre-war seasonal variation. it seems probable, however, that the federal reserve system has a stabilizing influence on commercial rates, so that seasonal variations are now less than they were in pre-war times. Actual average rates in January were a shade lower than in December...
...stories, which are called "The Daughter of Alan Muir" and "Shadows of a Shade"--a somewhat far-fetched title have an unpleasant crotic trend. The scene and circumstances of the one are not very clearly visualized; the chronology of the other is rather difficult to grasp. Both show a certain power in attaining climax. Surely the writers' talents might better be employed in treating themes of college life...
...matter of fact, the glowing things that New Haven scribes said about Yale's material last year were justified. The material was good and the Eli eleven of 1919 was just a shade short of being everything that the ardent well-wishers of the Blue could have hoped for. In the Princeton game only a break toward the end of the game, when Yale was taking chances to break a tie, enabled Princeton to win, while the Tigers earlier were obliged to resort to a long field-goal chance to top the score. In the Harvard game Yale had three...
That it is less easy to concentrate when the mercury hits 100 degrees in the shade than at mid-years, when the wind whistles through mackinaws and woolen hockey tights no one will deny. But at the same time much real studying can be done on even the hottest of days. One had only to step into the coolest spot in Cambridge,-- Widener Reading Room,--yesterday to prove that this quite staggeringly hopeful fact is true...