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Jordan was brought up footballwise at Pittsburgh, the entrenched citadel of the single wingback offense. Since he knows that style of play best, his present offense is basically single wing, but with varia- tions and aginstment necessary to adapt his offense to his available material, Actually, it is a single wing T, with direct and indirect passing from center...
Ornithological eyebrows are raised over the conspicuous taxonomic inaccuracy in last Monday's CRIMSON editorial. The owl now ravaging the fat and complacent pigeons of the Yard is a barred owl, whose proper Latin name is Strix varia, or if one wishes to be sub-specific, Strix varia varia. Scotiaptex nobulosa is the handle of the great grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse...
...Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because the Olympic diving program rewards perfection of execution rather than quantity of varia- tions. Needing a third place or better to make the team, the best she could do was fourth. Winner was Los Angeles' pert, blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...
...regular departments of the magazine two things call for special comment: Professor Hart's lively rendering of the usually not thrilling University notes, and the 1907 Class Poem, by H. Hagedorn, Jr., here printed under "Varia." The heading "Varia" might, indeed, be well applied to the entire number, for it includes such varied subjects as literature, science, biography, history, philosophy, and even prophecy