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...team realizes this situation. We think that very little urging will bring out a large and far more enthusiastic backing than cheered the team to victory last Saturday. We are not overconfident; we firmly believe than the team is going to win, but we also feel that every bit of support the College can give it will count heavily where the result is sure to be close until the very...
...bit of rowing history may interest your readers. Sliding seats date back to a time which is, as college generations go, "immemorial antiquity;" but as any one may see from the pictures in the Newell boat-house or in R. C. Lehmann's "Oarsman," that antiquity is not much over four decades. From the position of back and knees in the older pictures, one may safely infer that the seats were fixed. A few months ago, Professor John Trowbridge, for many years Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, told me that, in the fall of 1871, he rowed...
...attempt to accomplish this, he was forced to contend against the irresponsibility of a Los Angeles attorney, who in his craving for notoriety insisted upon making public every bit of information, regarding Mr. Burns's investigations that he could gather. He even went so far as to break in and rifle Mr. Burns's Los Angeles office in an attempt to find the detective's reports. Chiefly through this attorney's disclosures Mr. Burns was defeated in his purpose to bring the "big men" to justice and was forced to make his arrests prematurely. Notwithstanding the bribing of his operatives...
...mixed up in the controversy now. At the same time, whatever Socialism may mean, and who-ever may be right, we are at least interested in this tract of the Socialist Club, not because we want to see more socialists, nor because it is a remarkable or flawless bit of argument. We have always held that Harvard men should interest themselves in current problems, and Harvard men certainly know nothing about Socialism as a rule. Our most important reason for considering it, however, is that it seems to us that the danger of the movement lies only in the glamor...
...Saturday game with McGill were indeed poor, until it was discovered on Friday night that Sortwell would be able to return to play in the game. This contest marks the highest point of the season so far. Sortwell's lay-off had apparently harmed him not a bit and the Canadian team, said to be one of the best in the Provinces was beaten...