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...House sports program will start its winter season in full stride this week, with basketball, squash, and hockey opening their schedules, and indoor baseball going into its second week...
Harvard's outlook is far from dismal. Having lost only two early season games in what was decidedly a tough schedule, the Yardlings really hit their stride last Saturday in a 3 to 1 win over Brown. Then to top that off, they beat the Varsity 5 to 3 in their last scrimmage. The only disheartening feature is the fact that Jack Calhoun, the captain, and Bill Mayer are both troubled with leg injuries which may curtail their playing efficiency...
...contest was the first for the Ramblers, and they showed their inexperience in a lack of teamwork and blocking. The Bunnies, on the other hand, seemed to have hit their stride, and as they outweighed the scrappy Dorm boys 15 pounds per man, the score was remarkably...
...Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look at those trains, gaily defying me to paint them right...
...Plymouth to the line and given Chrysler a formidable competitor to Ford and Chevrolet. Competent, profane, full of studious curiosity, he had handled the complex problems of the Dodge plant-sales, labor, the thousands of trivia that pour over the desk of a big corporation executive-in his unruffled stride. In Walter Chrysler's mind there was no doubt that K. T. Keller had the mental heft to steer a motor giant which in the year just past had sold $516,830,333 worth of automobiles, had given employment to 59,000 workmen...