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...literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college life, or, in the words of the writer, "to discover why college stories are not better than they are." In the closing words of this article, the field of the Advocate is well defined by its comparison with the other College publications: "The pages of the CRIMSON," the writer says, "are interesting as a literal record of facts that concern us; the pages of the Lampoon, as a warped reflection of such facts, as satire, which, though often crude, is based on fact. The Advocate...
...Nicholas Rink, where Yale played Brown, Princeton and Pennsylvania. During the Christmas vacation, the Yale team took a trip to Pittsburg and Philadelphia, playing five games with teams made up largely of experienced Canadian players. Though none of these games were won, valuable experience was gained in them. A comparison of the Harvard and Yale scores is favorable to Harvard, since Brown, which has been twice beaten by Harvard defeated Yale last Thursday by a sore...
...Between these extremes the stars differ one from another in brilliance by about half a magnitude, and they are designated by letters in the order of brilliance. This sequence of stars of known magnitude enables the brightness of the variable star to be closely determined at any time, by comparison with the two constant stars, one brighter and one fainter, which are then nearest it in magnitude...
...changed from February 16, owing to the shortness of Yale's season. The present Yale team has played together for four years and is accordingly very fast, especially in offensive play. It has beaten practically all the strongest college teams in the east. There is almost no basis for comparison between Harvard and Yale except that Salem was defeated by Yale 19 to 12, but won from Harvard by the score...
...being taken in Cambridge, a large number of duplicate pictures are also being taken at the station in Peru. The Bruce telescope there in use is the largest photographic telescope in the world. These photographs are also to be preserved at the Cambridge astronomical library and by a comparison of the two it is hoped that, interesting and valuable conclusions will be reached...