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Soccer Captain Howle Mendel personally took care of beating Yale yesterday afternoon as he scored the winning goal, his sixth tally against the Elis in three years, in the last four minutes of the final game of his Harvard career, to gain a 2 to 1 victory...
...game started with a seemingly disastrous goal by Haine, Blue outside left, who took the ball from the center kick, carried it to the goal, and booted it in. It looked simple, but from that time on, Harvard's goalie, Jack Penson, had the situation well in hand, and he completely stopped the highly touted Erickson...
...scores. The Crimson has won four and lost three, and two of the teams to which it has lost, Williams and Princeton, have been beaten by Elis. Yale also trounced Tech and Brown by 5 to 1 and 7 to 0 scores while Harvard only took those two teams...
Died. Dr. Livingston Farrand, 72, modest, beloved president-emeritus of Cornell University; of bronchopneumonia and empyema; in Manhattan. A public health authority, a physician by training, he took leave of absence from the presidency of the University of Colorado (1914-19) to direct a civilian war against tuberculosis in France, stayed to guide Red Cross rehabilitation of millions of eastern and central European children...
Last fortnight the British Lion, which since World War II began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon...