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...Hampshire took the lead early in the race, Webster and Matthews striding out ahead of Harvard's quintet. As they neared the loop, the two New Hampshire runners still held the lead, with Playfair, Pier, Woodard, Scheu, and Channing close behind, all bunched within a space of ten yards...
Captain Woodard, Playfair, Pier, and Roys, who formed Harvard's scoring team last year, are counted on to avenge the Crimson's defeat. Channing and Webster strengthen the team further. The New Hampshire squad has lost only two men of last year's point scorers, and Webster of New Hampshire, winner of last year's meet, is among those returning...
Running with two broken bones in his foot, Frederic A. Webster '35, yesterday finished fourth in the cross-country time-trials, to win a place on the squad which faces New Hampshire on Friday...
...time-trial was won by Robert S. Playfair '36 in 29.41. O'Neill was second, with Cutler third, and Webster fourth. Neither Playfair nor Webster fourth. Neither Playfair nor Webster had run in the Holy Cross meet, as Playfair was running against Beccali on the following day, and Webster's injuries kept...
...Smith girls are devoted to a grey-goateed, twinkly little Scotsman who as a boy ate porridge morning & evening and has had chronic indigestion ever since. He is William Allan Neilson, president of Smith since 1917, famed literary scholar, stanch liberal, editor-in-chief of the latest Webster's Dictionary. At 65 President Neilson is wise and witty, still likes to tease his tall, handsome German wife, look into almost everything that goes on in Northampton and the world...