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...international track meet can not fail to be successful. From the available data it is almost impossible to make any adequate comparison of the opposing teams. But whatever the result, this meet offers abundant proof that, although keen rivals at home. Harvard and Yale are at bottom thoroughly united by the same interests...
...baseball game with Yale this afternoon promises to be a fight between two very evenly matched teams. Although Harvard has won more games so far during the season, the Yale schedule is considered to have been harder. A comparison of the teams shows that while our opponents appear to have a better pitching staff, we are perhaps better in the field, and our hitting this season has been more consistent than for several seasons past. The last few games have made it evident that the members of the team are able to work together at critical periods. Coach Sexton...
...English teams likewise are said to be strong, but any direct comparison is, of course, impossible. The meet should be closely contested, and on that account interesting to the participants. In view of the crowds that the coronation will draw to London, it should also be a source of pleasure to a great number of spectators of both countries...
...awards for the Bowdoin Prizes for dissertations in English for undergraduates: first prize of $250, Roscoe Russell Hess '11, of Seattle, Wash., on "The Paper Industry and Its Relation to the Conservation and the Tariff"; second prizes of $100 each, John Austin Spaulding '12, of Tewksbury Centre, on "A Comparison of Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' and Euripides' 'Iphigenia among the Taurians'"; Hiram Kelly Moderwell '13, of Fort Wayne, Ind., on "A Modern Attitude towards Art." Thirty-seven of the dissertations submitted were recommended to be considered in the awards of scholarships and degrees with distinction...
...Except for the debates, there is little opportunity for intellectual rivalry between the two undergraduate worlds. One can without difficulty imagine public opinion being at least partially influenced by the results of such a competition. Finally, it might serve as the foundation for a more sane basis of public comparison between the two colleges...