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...Connecticut schoolboys have won six victories in as many starts, two of them, however, by one-point margins. They outscored the New Haven Boys Club 19 to 18 and a week later came from behind to wrest a 20 to 19 victory from Taft. Harvard 1927 Choate Ehy, r.f. l.g., Tracy Eaton, l.f. r.g., (capt.) Maher Leckley, c. c., Brown Hesse, r.g. g l.ff., Fullmer Malick, l.gg. r.ff., Mullancy
With C. A. C. Eastman '24 out of the shot-put event with an old football injury, the Crimson will depend on H. T. Dunker '24 and Earl Evans '24 to wrest honors from the other strong entries. They will meet the greatest opposition in Ralph Hills, Princeton football guard, and Olympic shot-put prospect, and Orville Wanzer, powerful policeman from the New York...
...wrest features of the increase is that it is to take place immediately. This is manifestly unfair and unwarranted. There are men who have taken six courses next year and receive their degree in three years. They are liable for a charge of $40 this year for their extra courses and believed last September that with the price of tuition being $200 and that of two extra courses being $40 that their last year would cost them $240. But now they must pay $380, an increase of $140, or almost a 60 percent increase. If these men had known that...
...Democrats, once fairly marked, has recently become less acute, less perceptible, and in many cases has been obliterated. Great issues have become more identified with personal than with political partisanship, as the Treaty fight has shown. In both the old parties the more radical elements are threatening to wrest the sceptre from the grasp of the "Old Guard." With elements in both parties striving to outdo each other in radicalism, there will be an opportunity for constructive statesmanship untainted with reaction to acquire the political balance of power, without the disruption which attends the birth of a third party. This...
...early season games shows no victory for the University upon the ice, the complete stories of those contests tell a tale of increasing strength and skill on the part of the Crimson team which makes the combination appear fully capable of handling its blue-clad opponents. In order to wrest the victory from Yale, however, the sextet will be forced to show a faster, keener brand of hockey than it has disclosed thus far. The Eli team is composed entirely of veteran players and has not been entirely unsuccessful in its invasion of Canada during Christmas vacation. Moreover...