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...much has already been said of its appointments, its tournaments and prizes, its unusually fine program of speakers, that we feat repetition would be only boring. There is, however, one thing obtainable at the Union that we should like to mention,--a thing which is too often passed by. That is the opportunity for contact with one's fellows; opportunity to see and hear what others are thinking and doing, which is of inestimable value as part of an education. We hope no one will shy because we say it is part of an education. But we cannot express...
...school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service men who took this examination during the war period. Some of the words whose meaning he had to give to answer the questions are, pomology, cleistogamous, chamfer and guimpe...
...came to this country as Head Coach of the Union Boat Club of Boston. In 1914 he took an eight from the Union Boat Club to the Henley Race in England and saw it follow the second University crew across the finish line for second place, thus rivalling the feat of Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, who in the same year took the second University crew to the Henley and won the race. From this time dates the connection of Coaches Haines and Herrick which has proved so valuable to rowing at the University...
Jones of Brown made a new record for the Y. M. C. A. tank of 57 seconds for 100 yards, a feat which puts him in a class with the best swimmers of the country...
...long afterward Keck launched his own personal 6-play offensive, when Owen's kick was blocked. The ball careened over to the other corner of the field, pursued by Legendre, Owen and another Wasp-leg. The latter duplicated the feat of Garrity in the Yale game last year when his interference made it possible for Scheerer to carry his recovered fumble for a touchdown. Legendre passed on and fell on the ball. Two plays afterwards, Garrity waded through a huge hole behind Keck, hurled himself on his neck and snuggled around the pigskin...