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Riddled by probationary casualties, the Freshman Track Team will leave today to meet Andover's crack contingent. The Freshman will be in the role of underdog tomorrow with more good runners on pro than there are running...
...smooth-skating Harvard leader. With Mills are Bill Moore, a former St. Paul's teammate at center, and Dan Badger, who played with Moore all last year, at left wing. This is a smooth-working line that may be able to put it over on Stubb's crack first trio. Yale has a good reserve line of Childs, Gagarin, and Cooke, as has Harvard in the sophomore trio which performed so well against Dartmouth Tuesday. Both third lines are newly formed and may show anything. The defense men on both teams have revealed no great strength or weakness...
President Conant chose to make an issue of this gift, refusing it as ostentatiously as it had been proffered, and seizing the opportunity to take a crack at the government of a great nation. Probably, except to the student who missed out on the year in Germany, the opportunity to prove Harvard's militant liberalism was worth a thousand dollars...
...TIME, Jan. 20). Splashing full-page displays in many a newspaper, the company blazoned: TRIBUTE TO A PERFECT RECORD OF THE RAILROADS. Next day the record for 1936 was spoiled when The Williamsporter, crack Reading Railway System Express, jumped the track near Sunbury, Pa., killed one passenger...
...Sept. 2, 1913, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's crack White Mountain Express telescoped into the rear of its Bar Harbor Express near Wallingford, Conn., bringing death to 21, injuries to 50, much criticism to the railroad. To Miss Jean Annett of Red Bank, N. J.. whose neck had been broken and whose life had been despaired of, the company gave $10,000 cash, promised her $700 a month for life. Last week the New Haven, deep in Section 77-B reorganization, asked the courts to relieve it of further obligation to Miss Annett who, though confined...