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...From a comparison of records this year and from the performances of men who have taken part in previous meets it is safe to say that the contest will be close, with the chances slightly in favor of Yale. First places in most of the events are fairly easy to determine, but there are sure to be some surprises in the second and third places...
During the last three weeks the class crews have been getting into final shape for the race next Friday. It is difficult to make any comparison as to the relative speed of the different crews as none of them have rowed together. The Senior crew, which during the early part of the season developed rapidly, has lately shown a tendency to shorten the stroke at the finish. On Thursday Johnson, who has been rowing at 3, changed places with Joralemon...
...University baseball team will play Syracuse University this afternoon on the Freshman diamond, Soldiers Field, at 4 o'clock. As this is the first year that the University team has played Syracuse, it is impossible to form a comparison of the nines. Judging from its defeat of Hobart on Friday by a score of 23 to 0, the Syracuse team is unusually strong...
...University baseball team will play its first game of the season with the University of Vermont this afternoon on the Freshman diamond, Soldiers Field, at 3.30 o'clock. As neither team has yet played a game this season it is impossible to from an accurate comparison of the nines. Vermont, however has a better team than in several years...
European governments, Professor Willcox said, have long realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that...