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...people when only 3,000 should be barred. There is absolutely no connection between the criminal and illiterate elements. Finally, figures and experience show that the southern foreigner can be assimilated, and that he can be educated in our schools so that he is not a drag on the community, which was claimed by the affirmative...
...shell is its stern, which will be square, instead of being drawn out to a fine point as in previous boats. The new shell embodies some of the lessons Mr. Crane learned in designing hydroplanes. Although it is square, it is so built that it will drag the least possible water astern. The fact that it is seven feet shorter than previous boats will materially lessen the skin resistance. Mr. Crane is convinced of the superiority of the new design from the result of many tests made in the government testing tank, at Washington, D. C. In these tests models...
With the coming of the more important baseball games next week, the old question of organized cheering will have to be settled again. Every spring we see the spontaneous applause of the earlier part of the season change into concerted cheering under the direction of numerous cheer-leaders, who drag the last breaths from the supporters of the team in a frenzied endeavor to help bring about a victory. However righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team...
...entering an exacting competition have found it extremely difficult to keep up their other College duties and it has in some cases served more or less to isolate men in the first few months of their College career--a condition to be avoided if possible. It is unfortunate to drag a man down in his work the first half-year and handicap him with the task of working his way into favor again. The Freshman entering a competition only a fortnight after arriving in Cambridge is at a complete loss for a week or two, and after that he finds...
...stupid errors on the bases. While there were several clever plays pulled off in the field, notably Harvard's three double plays, each of which spoiled good chances for runs, it was uninteresting baseball for the most part, and the slow playing of the visitors made the game drag unnecessarily...