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...such blow was delivered last year when the British Army ruled that officer-ships, instead of being restricted to graduates of Britain's public (private) and military schools, would thereafter be open also to the ranks. But the British Foreign Service continued to be recruited, as an English wag once put it, from young public-school and Oxford-Cambridge University men of private means possessed of "a knowledge of two or three foreign languages, some familiarity with the graces, and a nodding acquaintance with the muses." Among other guarantees that moneyed wearers of The Old School Tie would dominate...
...start of the Jayvee race Cornell pressed a momentary advantage, but the story was the same as with the Varsity. By the half-mile mark the Crimson crew, stroked by Colton Wagner, was out in front by a safe margin, and Wag kept the beat at a steady 31 most of the way to the finish, where the timers clocked the Jayvees in 9:31:6. Cornell was a length back and Syracuse over five...
Thirty-two seems to be the key to Crimson victories. In Saturday's race it was not until stroke Colton Wagner raised the beat to 32 that the Crimson pulled ahead, and in last Monday's race Harvard did not step out in front until Wag lowered the stroke from...
...first half mile of Saturday's main event, the varsities of Harvard, Tech, and Princeton skimmed into a slight head wind prow for prow. Up until the Harvard Bridge Wagner was understroking the opposition and keeping up with them, but soon after Wag's boat got swinging at the payoff number, and the race was all over. With half a mile to go the Varsity shot the beat up to 34 for practice and went over the line at 37 in 9:22.8. Princeton was timed exactly five seconds later, and Tech finished eleven seconds behind the Tigers...
...Hegel can't persuade me that a syllogism can wag its tail...