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...deficit can be traced to the unnecessary burdens placed upon the Union in the form of taxes and rent amounting to thousands of dollars yearly. Although the Governing Board consisting largely of undergraduates see clearly the obstacles in the path of the Union's success, they have tried in vain to obtain help from the graduates on the Board of Trustees. In the resolution drawn up by the Governing Board published in today's issue, an appeal is made to the Trustees of the Union and to the Administrative Board of the College to make an immediate report...
Whoever reads college periodicals seriously must note a return of the Monthly to its traditional function as an aesthetic and dilettante free-lance, reverting from the broader and more serious policy of recent years. The December number leaves an impression of fine skein, filmy, evanescent. One looks in vain for substance. The featured interview with Venizelos may have been intended for thought, but the style of Tartarin de Tarascon hardly enhances the glory that was, and is not, Greece...
...only compatible with clearness! The verse libre of A. Kline Sp might have changed forms with "Succor," since "Sunday Chapel" is no less prosaic than Harding Scholle '17's less self-conscious effort toward oddity in form. With more earnest expression of sincere feeling this must even be a vain plea addressed to writers who nervously fret to be "different"--in vain, as long as Pegasus, instead of trying to get somewhere, fantastically pirouettes...
...Yale team outplayed the University in the second half when the Crimson was making, a vain attempt to score, but in the first half both teams played equally well--or poorly--with the breaks going to Yale. The Blue eleven was the more consistently powerful organization throughout the game, but the Crimson was strong enough to hold its opponents at all times, had not luck occasionally interfered. The winning touchdown was due to a Yale fumble recovered by a Yale player, Gates, but the ability of the Blue team to force the ball over the goal line after this fumble...
Casey's brilliant run at the beginning of the second period was all in vain, and from that time on Yale was the agressor. The quarter was featured by two unsuccessful Yale field goals, the first first down of the game, made by Horween, and finally by the touchdown which gave the game to the Blue. Comerford, from a difficult angle, failed to kick the goal...