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...Freshman players were divided up into four groups: backs, quarterbacks, ends, and linesmen. They were sent through the usual preliminary drill of tossing medicine balls, starting, falling on the ball, and "duck waddling". No attempt has yet been made to grade the players and the division into first and second squads will not come until next week...
Coach Campbell supervised the other backfield men. He repeated yesterday's punting practice and later sent a few players to join the quarterbacks in trying drop-kicks. W. B. Snow '18, the regular coach of the linesmen, gave his squad a stiff drill in the "duck waddle" and charging. V. F. Likins '18, a member of the University squad in 1916 and 1917, coached the ends yesterday. He will assist Coach Campbell during the next two weeks...
...education; why, at the present time, is it not absorbing capital usefully in the wages of mechanics and the purchase of materials; and why, above all, at the present time, is not an every growing flying public taking to the air for purposes of business and pleasure as a duck takes to the water or, more appositely, as a bird takes wing? These questions are asked vainly by those who have grown up in and with the science of aviation and whose outlook into the future is practical and optimistic and robust as will all true pioneers...
...find that in certain quarters liberalism at Harvard is just being discovered. To some, tolerance means the privilege of making the other fellow abandon his own ideas for somebody else's. At Harvard, tolerance means the privilege of minding one's own business. That explains why we do not duck a man in the Charles for not attending a mass-meeting, or for playing chess on the afternoon of the Yale game. It explains also why we do not "baby" Freshmen. We do not promise a man a better time here than else-where--as one of our correspondents seems...
...Harvard Math Club: Professor H. P. Manning will speak on "The Dog and Duck Problem" at Conant Hall...