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...Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn to replace Charles Whiteside whose crews, though they beat Yale four times out of seven in four-mile races at New London, did poorly in shorter races. The event was the one and three quarter mile varsity race in the Compton Cup Regatta, on Princeton's Lake Carnegie...
...first time in years Harvard is ranking as a power in Eastern rowing, for the new Bolles regime went off to an auspicious start Saturday afternoon as the Crimson's first and second eights glided to victory in the Compton Cup races...
...first race comes against Princeton on April 24 in the competition for the Compton Cup, and Harvard hasn't won a race against the Tigers since athletic relations were renewed between the two Colleges. Principal cause for this Tiger streak has been the fact that their crews get onto the water two weeks before Harvard, on the average. But there is no ice now on the Charles, and Bolles is holding his breath. If his crew can get out on the water within the next couple of weeks, and at present that seems very probable, chances of beating Princeton...
Ahead of the first boat lies a tough schedule, opening on April 24 with the Compton Cup Regatta at Princeton. Columbia, Tech, Cornell, Syracuse, Navy, Penn and Yale are also in the offing...
...valedictory address Karl Taylor Compton gave a discourse on "The Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...