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...conforms to the growing tendency to eliminate as far as possible an undue emphasis on intercollegiate contests. Major Moore's statement that the Athletic Committee will probably not reconsider its decision on the status of boxing in the University is altogether in accordance with a national interpretation of the function of college athletics...
Merely winning championships, of course, is not the only function of the lacrosse team. Lacrosse offers perhaps one of the best kinds of exercise--and the small squads now in vogue only partially put to use the available facilities. It will be a poor compliment to Mr. Harry Berbert who begins his first season today as the University Coach, after exceptional success at Syracuse, if this year's turn-out be no larger than the usual one. After all, lacrosse at Harvard is firmly enough planted in tradition to satisfy the most meticulous. The first college lacrosse contest in America...
...Committee of Experts (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.), whose chairman is the renowned General Dawes, whose function is to report upon the means of stabilizing the German currency and of balancing the German budget, began to draft its final report...
...present management of the American Chicle Co. comes up for reelection at its annual stockholders' meeting on March 4 next, but a number of prominent stockholders have made up their minds to make this function rather more stirring than such meetings usually prove. They have organized a stockholders' protective committee, and are out to obtain proxies for a majority of the 155,000 outstanding shares; already they have proxies for 65,000. They propose to have the scalp of H. T. Blodgett, President of the Company, and to effect several reforms, in their opinion demanded by the business...
...Lepere plane nor any lack of the pilot's endurance that pre-vented victory, but the breaking of the supercharger, whose function is to maintain the power of the motor in rarefied air. The undismayed Macready will try again, with another supercharged plane which theoretically can reach 45,000 feet, or nearly nine miles of altitude...