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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...glorious by-gone history of tennis. A step at once so radical and so harmful to the existing principles of the tennis regime can be anathematized as only one thing--insidious propaganda. What we want to know is who is at the bottom of all this? Is there any number of persons in this University who seriously contend that this new doctrine is in accord with the aims of this nation? No! By all means, No! As Freud in one of his customary nightmares might well have said, the very "rayon" will have departed forever from the game...
Inasmuch as the present volume indexes only a small part of the Museum's possessions, it is likely that other catalogs will be compiled shortly. Contained in the list of important collections never yet adequately recorded are the Chinese and Japanese prints, a small number of classical originals, and a considerable assemblage of Turners, Ruskins and modern water-colors and drawings...
...University's crew coaching staff are in favor of the plan and a number of discussions of the values of the different strokes now in use have been held this fall. Dr. Paul Withington '09, who acted in an advisory capacity during the fall season, is one of the strongest backers of the change and bases his arguments on the advantages of the English oarsmen in the Inter-Allied race at Paris last spring because of the use of a stroke which is practically standard throughout the British Isles...
...each player one or more points in a set, and these points will be added to the points made by the player in the entire set. The points won in each game are added together and to this is added the allotted handicap. The player then having the greater number of points wins the set, regardless of the number of games won or lost...
...grand total of thirty hockey games between the University and Yale, Yale has won but nine. In the first few seasons the two universities won about an equal number of games, but, with the advent of Alfred Winsor '02 as hockey coach, Harvard lost only one game to Yale between 1903 and 1912, and consequently gained a big lead. Usually more than one game has been played in a season the team winning the majority of games being credited with the championship for the year. The series standing is Harvard, 13; Yale...