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Dixon enters the finals of the tournament as a result of his defeat yesterday of Caroll Harrington '24 in straight sets, 15-12, 18-16, 15-13. In this match Dixon had control of the situation the entire time, although Harrington kept him on the alert, and forced him to his best game...
...Captain Mallory and to his splendid team--worthy to rank among the great elevens of any university of all time--Harvard is only too anxious to do honor. Alert and powerful, Yale earned on Saturday the victory she deserved and which the most trying conditions imaginable could not mar. Harvard is proud of her record of victories over Yale, but she can never forget how to lose nor how to honor the team which broke her record of success...
...Yale had been more alert and had recovered all its own fumbles and one of Harvard's which led directly to Yale's score. At the very moment when Harvard seemed to have at last placed itself in position to score, Yale snatched its opportunity and scored its first touchdown in the Stadium since...
...French press, always on the alert for new manifestations of German guile, " discovered " through the newspaper Liberté that the Germans are disseminating anti-French propaganda among British and American tourists through Spanish, Italian, Greek, English, German guides in Paris. According to Liberte, tourists at Versailles hear tirades against the Treaty of Versailles; tourists on the battlefields hear of the valor of the German troops. Liberté asserts that guides tear up Allied flags in the cemeteries and sell strips as souvenirs. Thus " Papa Poincaré " has another German menace to combat...
...subject. During the summers of his college years, he and his brother made expeditions into the Maine woods and there learned the rudiments of out-door life which he put into practice later in Africa and his famous hunting expeditions in other countries. His observing faculties were always keenly alert in spite of his nearsightedness...