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With improved passing and a stiffer defence, the University shows markedly better play today than in its preceding games...
Although there are no comparative scores on which to base forecasts, it is probable that the Colby College baseball nine which meets the University at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field will present a stiffer opposition than any northern team the Crimson has met this season...
With the advantage of a home floor and experience against the type of game which the Worcester men play, the University basketmen are expected to put up a much stiffer battle tonight. The team showed itself to be in top form against the Aggies for they carried their attack with speed and accuracy and the defensive power kept the opposing forwards from caging short shots...
...would be superfluous to preach a sermon on this text. The facts preach it loudly and often enough. This awarding of prizes for criminal merit must stop. Criminals must be punished, not coddled. Ball must be made a good deal stiffer. The suspended sentence should be most intelligently used or itself be suspended. The parole business should be greatly reduced and watched with the utmost carefulness, if any carefulness suffices. Instead of throwing its arm lovingly around the poor, dear criminal, justice should put him, where the community will be safe from him, and keep him there. He is sure...
...Crimson. Hence Toronto, after last night's experience will not be running up against anything new or bewildering this evening. The Crimson team, however, is a better drilled and more smoothly working unit than the B. A. A. combination; and for this reason Toronto is sure to meet stiffer resistance than it did last night...