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Disclosing a remarkable attack and an alert defence, the Tilton Seminary basketball team defeated the 1926 team by the score of 23-22 Saturday afternoon at the Freshman Athletic Building. At first the fast three-man attack of the New Hampshire team was checked by the Freshman five-man defence, but soon Smith, the Tilton center, and Simpson, forward, piled up 16 points in a series of long shots. Four of Smith's goals were made from the center of the floor. Unprotected passing and inaccurate shots at the basket kept the Freshman score for the first half down...
...university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew nothing of navigation and naval technique was of less importance than that "their minds were alert, their hearts filled with an intense enthusiasm for the cause, their souls clean, and their bodies ready for the most exhausting tasks. So much was I in pressed by the demonstration of the ability of these young men and their ready initiative in responding to training that whenever...
...conceptions of democracy to assume that the privilege of higher education should be restricted to any class defined by the accident of birth or by the fortuitous circumstance of possession of wealth, but there is such a thing as an aristocracy of brains, made up of men intellectually alert and intellectually eager, to whom increasingly the opportunities of higher education ought to be restricted, if democracy is to become a quality product rather than simply a quantity one, and if excellence and effectiveness are to displace the mediocrity towards which democracy has such a tendency to skid...
...rations". A group of men, similar physically and engaged in the same activities, were divided into two classes for a month, half on "reduced rations" and the other half keeping to their usual diet. At the end of the month it was found that the former group were more alert mentally, more active and efficient physically, and possessed more endurance in every way than the others. The one drawback was that these men had no surplus, no energy stored up to resist colds or other diseases...
...Alert Conde Bickfor '24 of Pelham, N. Y.; fredeick August Otto Schwarz '24 of Greenwich, Coon...