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...stiff competition today when it clashes with the Crusader first-year squad. The visitors have a 6 to 1 triumph over the Exeter diamond squad to their credit. Two days after bowing to Holy Cross, the same school boy team handed the Freshman a 9 to 8 beating to spoil a record of six straight wins and no defeats. Mooney will probably take up the pitching burden for the visitors, while either Ketchum, Whitemore, or Malley, may be called on to puzzle the Worcester batsmen. The Crimson batting order will probably line up with Miyakawa at short stop, Crotty...
...such work is valueless for the non-scientist. On the contrary. I believe that the student can only arrive at a real appreciation of the scientific method by actually doing experiments himself. In well-conducted laboratory work, students do not know definitely enough what the results will be to spoil the experiment as such, and experience in observation and manipulation is essential to a realization of scientific progress...
...were the women players spared. At times the students would pretend to weep in sheer mockery; occasionally the sounds of kissing would break in upon some tender situation and completely spoil its effect. And between successive flights of lemons came ever and anon the Harvard yells of 'Rotten...
...bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph Laubenthal, bountifully bewigged, an uninspired Siegfried. Critics reveled in the music, lauded its interpreter, Conductor Artur Bodansky; bewailed the fact that carelessness and a disregard for Wagner's instructions were allowed to spoil many of the effects; prayed that the Metropolitan orchestra, for several weeks now noticeably ragged, would get a long profitable vacation...
...Years Spoil Team Play...