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From this impressive but rather deadly list of statistics, one can really draw a conclusion. Despite the fact that the fellowships have doubled the enrollment from the affected states, it will be a superhuman task to effect a balance of power between the cast and the west. Yet this is what must be done if Harvard is to beat provincialism. Mr. Conant has a hard task ahead of him, made even more difficult by the necessity of maintaining academic standards at the present level. But he must continue to develop the frontier and push it forward if Harvard...
...contrast to this pleasant and happy life out at Worcester, things have been a bit chaotic lately hero in Cambridge. The season started with a new coach, Dick Harlow, making a superhuman effort to rebuild Crimson football between and his product showed against Springfield that it hadn't been entirely unreceptive to his teachings...
...since picayune Bill Johnston appeared on the scene in 1915, there has been at least one high-class tennist who looks as if nature had designed him for ping-pong. Currently, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, a 5 ft. -3 in. Atlantan, holds this distinction. Equipped with almost nothing except a superhuman ability to get the ball back, his qualifications as a dark horse at Forest Hills are: 1) a grievance against the Davis Cup Committee for not putting him on the team for European play, 2) the fact that he has at one time or another beaten almost every able player...
...enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts...
Here's for superhuman power to the lungs and diaphragm of Roberta Keene Tubman next time she is forced by her loyal Americanism to pit '"The Star-Spangled Banner" against the mongrel "Internationale" [TIME...