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...arrange for lectures and entertainments, and devise other means to make the club an indispensable part of University life. At the last election only a very small per cent. of the members voted. We hope that the number today will be exceptionally large, so that the new officers may start their year convinced of the members' confidence...
...third crew will be given one length's start over the second crew, which in turn will start two lengths ahead of the University eight...
Today, beginning with lunch at 1 o'clock, the University crew training table will start at the Varsity Club. Only the members of the University eight, together with Coach Wray, will be taken on at first, but it is expected that a few more men with the managers will be added after the race at the end of this week. The men who will go to the training table today are: Bacon, E. Cutler, R. Cutler, Faulkner, Lunt, Sargent, Waid, and Withington...
...University basketball team has recently finished one of the most discouraging seasons ever experienced by any Harvard athletic organization. Handicapped at the start by a small squad and a short schedule, the members of the team did the best they knew how, but were defeated in seven of the eight games played. Their competitors came from places where basketball is rated more highly than at Cambridge, as a consequence of which the games were usually one-sided. When they played in the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard men turned out in very small numbers and the team undoubtedly felt that to many...
...fourth week of practice in the Cage, and the work seems to be well advanced for so early in the year. The batting is not quite so satisfactory as the rest of the work, but this is easily accounted for by the fact that the pitchers had two weeks' start over the rest of the men and have not been favoring the batters with easy balls. Coach Mathewson's three weeks' work with the pitchers ended last Saturday and was in every way a success. The squad made excellent progress under his direction and appears to be an unusually strong...