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...Freshman netmen. B.H. Whitebeck Jr., brother of the Captain of the University team, is a promising candidate. He won the Roys' National Indoor Championship in 1923, the Harvard Interscholastics in 1924, and was captain of the Loomis net team for two years H.H. Lisker is another likely racquet-wielder. He captured the Interscholastic Championship of Rhode Island in 1924 and 1925, and was twice captain of the team which won the Gilden Cup in Providence, Robeson Bailey, winner of the Freshman championship in last fall's tournament, will be out for the team together with J.H. Appleton, a member...
...Rawlins '27, number three on the University court squad will be the first Crimson racquet wielder to test the competition in the Massachusetts State Squash Championships, being held under the auspices of the Union Boat Club, when he plays in the opening round today. Captain G. D. Debevoise '26 and R. S. Wright '26, first two players on the championship University quintet have been ranked along with M. P. Baker '22, present holder of the state crown and Ralph Powers, Canadian champion, as seeded players. They will both swing into action later in the week...
...character of the combat, however, has changed. The bludgeon which injured not only its wielder's antagonist, but everyone within range, has given way to the more gentlemanly rapier. The vigorous action of the government has largely accounted for the change; but the ironic observer could point out that though the old methods are now despised and outlawed, the Gould family has through them emerged--immensely rich and respected...
...Freshman team were all triumphant in their week-end matches. Team B duplicated the feat of Team A by clinching the state championship in Class B when it defeated the Union Boat Club by a 4 to 1 score. J. H. Finley '25 was the only Crimson racquet wielder to go down to defeat. He lost to Ralph May after a close struggle, which went the five game limit...
...essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here are the two most interesting personalities in American criticism- opposed to each other, both prejudiced and both, apparently, escaping from themselves, in public utterances absolutely giving the He to the faces which they have built around themselves, with which...