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...dense crowd of humanity and was seen no more, until he emerged in tennis costume on a brilliantly illuminated court surrounded by a crowd. There, for three hours, pausing sometimes to wipe honest sweat and perhaps a few remaining traces of grease paint from his face, he labored to vanquish with sizzling drive and cannonading serve, a bounding little Basque called Jean Borotra. Eventually he did so, 6-4, 8-10, 11-13, 6-1, 6-3, thus atoning somewhat for the drubbing Borotra had given him a week before in the national indoor championship (TIME, March 1). The crowd...
Schooled in the apathy of the mystic, in the ataraxy of the Oriental stoic, the teacher sat quietly upon the tack and conducted his class. Then, when he had ended his lecture, he expelled them all. Thus did tradition of the East vanquish the smartness of the West in a Turkish seat of learning...
...process will ever go hungry. Today, patriotism offers yet another inducement. The news of the German dye invasion should send every chemist in the country scurrying to his flasks and crucibles. In that case, it will not be long before we can meet the German beaker to beaker and vanquish them in a fair fight. Not Tariffs but Test-tubes is the permanent answer...
...next and at the same time the most crucial game before that with Yale, will be the Brown game on next Saturday. It is an open secret that Coach Robinson is out to defeat the University team, as last year it was his ambition to vanquish Yale. All his preparations have been made with this end in view and it is expected that he will uncover the plays which he considers effective for this purpose...
...students who had for several years successfully played against Princeton and Columbia, the old-fashioned game, on the suggestion of Harvard men adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that time...