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...exception, the teams in the A division were pretty closely bunched. Instead of producing a generally competitive spirit among the House athletes, this served only to produce an attitude of general indifference. It may have been this attitude which enabled an ambitious and calculating Leverett House squad, probably the smallest of any of the Houses, to piece together a first team which barely won the first half, and which has clinched the second during the last few days. Several times during this period there have been dark rumors about "ringer" teams being formed to put an inglorious stop...
From Buenos Aires the Ministry of Agriculture reported that, despite every known manner of fighting locusts, they and drought have destroyed over 25% of Argentina's present corn crop, leaving only 10,625,000 harvestable acres, the smallest crop in years...
...skin, with the somewhat ironical title of "Little Poems for Little Folk." A removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides in the British Museum...
Other specimens are: a longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...preliminary meeting held yesterday afternoon in the Eliot House Common Room, 55 men reported to Coach Whiteside as candidates for the Varsity crew. The turnout was the smallest in several years, but more carsmen are expected to report during the next few weeks, and after the close of the winter sports seasons. Seventy-five men reported to Freshman Coach Bert Haines at the Union in the evening...