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Last year only the first game of the series with Holy Cross could be played, Holy Cross winning by the score of 7 to 6. This year Holy Cross has had a season of varied success. On the southern trip in March she was beaten by Pennsylvania, 2 to 1, by Georgetown, 14 to 3, and won from Virginia, 7 to 2. Since then she has been beaten by Wesleyan, 11 to 10, by Seton Hall, 9 to 5, by Colby, 10 to 7, and has won from Dartmouth, 8 to 1, from Fordham, 4 to 2, from Tufts...
...Success in Intercollegiate Sport...
...year was, on the whole, peaceful: the committee's relation to the Faculty and to the Governing Boards was never seriously disturbed; and its already good understanding with the students continued. Moreover, in intercollegiate sport the year brought unusual success. In football, Mr. Haughton, an unpaid coach, put the finest spirit into a young and inexperienced team, got the best work out of it, and won. In hockey, the University team showed great and efficient strength. In track athletics, the team lost the dual games with Yale, but came out first at the intercollegiate track meet with the largest score...
...undergraduate himself. Of course, the disproportion is due in large part to a contrast in the amount of applause won by the two forms of activity in college, for few men at any age are so self-con- tained as to be impervious to apparent estimates of success on the part of the general public. But there is another cause for the distortion of values. Undergraduates are prone to believe that athletic sports are a good measure of red blood, while high rank in studies indicates only industrious plodding. They often rate the two occupations much as savages do hunting...
Every man in the Senior class, who has had any experience in rowing should report at the Weld boathouse this afternoon at 4.15 o'clock for the second Senior crew. It is absolutely necessary for the success of the Senior crew that there should be a second crew to practice with it. There will be a race for the second eights as well as for the first crews. A coxswain is also needed. H. N. PLATT...