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Washington's favorite play was off left tackle and Farnum, backed up by Andrews, was unable to break up the play. A drizzling rain fell through the entire contest and as Washington had the faster squad it was figured that the Westerners would be more handicapped than Brown. But the muddy field proved a great obstacle to Pollard, the Brunonian halfback, who lost many yards through his failure to get a good start on end runs...
...President of the Board of Overseers," to quote from Mr. Thayer, "it fell to Governor Long to induct Abbott Lawrence Lowell into the office of President of Harvard College, a duty which he performed with memorable impressiveness." Among other honors held by Governor Long was the presidency of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...rules and discussion concerning the attitude to be taken by the three universities regarding summer baseball, the case of the five Yale players who withdrew from participation in intercollegiate athletics this fall upon discovering that they had violated the Yale rule covering this matter, was considered informally. This subject fell outside the purpose of the meeting and the committee did not, of course, feel competent to pass on the case. There was, however, a very full discussion of the matter in all its bearings. It is expected that following further discussion of the new regulations as provisionally accepted...
...never been a moment of buoyant humor in his writing since that time, and hence he has been subjected to much criticism. But few people know, Mr. Bangs said, the cause of that change. Rudyard Kipling had a little daughter to whom he was greatly devoted. When he fell ill, he was unconscious for fifteen days, during which time his daughter was suddenly taken sick and died. Kipling's first request upon gaining consciousness was for his daughter, and he had to be told that she had died ten days before. "Right then," Mr. Bangs said "something broke in that...
...buildings of Harvard College were used as army quarters in the Revolutionary War; Memorial Hall and Soldiers Field are monuments to the Harvard men who fell in 1861-65. Yet we of the present generation, while we deeply sympathize, can hardly appreciate the conditions in European universities today. The following extract from the Review, of Cambridge, England, shows a situation and a spirit which are only too common in institutions of learning throughout all Europe...