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...exact date of the next University game is still unsettled. It is possible that one of the local Boston teams, the B. A. A., Pere Marquette, or West minister sextets, will play the Crimson the middle of next week, but such a contest has not yet been definitely arranged. It is fairly certain, however, that Saturday evening, January 14, Coach Claflin's men will face Dalhousie University at the Arena...
...University team is scheduled to go to Pittsburg, Pa., to meet the University of Pittsburg and another will oppose the University of Syracuse at Albany, N. Y. The subject for both debates will be the payment of debts owed the United States by the Allied Nations, but the exact wording has not been decided upon...
This increase has been made in spite of a remarkable increase in the number of local men in the Freshman class. More than half of this year's Freshmen, or to be exact, fifty-one and one half percent, entered from Massachusetts homes. About five and one half percent came from the other New England states, forty-one percent from the rest of the country, and a little over one percent from foreign countries. Despite this large Massachusetts representation in the largest Freshman class that ever entered, other factors, such as the wide geographical distribution of the men transferring from...
...play by play, or who even stood on the curbing in front of a newspaper office and watched an impartial employee shove a little yellow ball along a blackboard, usually indicating the direction in which the real football was not going. Since it is so important to give the exact number of people who saw the game, why not do the thing up right and say: "Returns which are now coming in from the Middle West, with some of the rural districts still to be heard from, indicate that at least 145,566 people watched the Yale-Prineton football game...
Everything received will be divided up and sent either to the Associated Charities of Cambridge and Boston, the Morgan Memorial, the Salvation Army, or to the Near East Commission. These institutions keep in constant touch with needy families and know their exact condition. Hence anything contributed to the collection is sure to be used only where there is immediate and urgent need...