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...that of the Davison Scholarships, which bring six students annually from Oxford and Cambridge. Two of these study at Harvard, two at Yale, and two at Princeton. The two English students at Harvard this year are W. F. P. Chadwick, from Wadham College, Oxford; and K. R. H. Johnston, from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
Undergraduates who pass through the Johnston Gate between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls are very likely to think of these most venerable of Yard buildings as just two old structures, quaint and pleasant to look at perhaps, but hardly comparable for comfort or utility with newer edifices. Harvard contains a collection of musty classrooms, with desks and benches like the little red schoolhouse, cut deep with the initials of years of bored listeners to lectures. Remodeled Massachusetts houses Seniors in desirable rooms which are the object of nothing but envy on the part of the undergraduate...
...Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, the contest for the famed Davis Cup stood even with two matches for the U. S. and two for France after William T. Tilden II had lost to Rene Lacoste 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Out ran William Johnston, famed Davis Cup defender, only hope of the U. S. team. He would show that U. S. stamina could whip French flabbiness...
...faced Cochet. The Frenchman won the first set 6-4, but Johnston was hardly warmed to the game. The U. S. man took the second set 4-6. Cochet, mak-ing a desperate rally, won the third 6-2. The fourth stood at 2-5 in favor of Cochet. Johnston exerted every ounce of muscle, pulled the set up to 4-5. Then, Cochet won the last game and the Davis cup passed, for the first time in history, to France...
...smooth tennis lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass., famous men played doubles for the U. S. championship. Famous William Johnston, San Francisco, stepped off the train out of practice and teamed with Richard Norris Williams. Once they had played doubles together before; to win the Norwood Tournament in England, 1920. Spectators watched them narrowly, since only they could dispute with William T. Tilden Jr., Germantown, Pa., and Francis Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., sly shotmakers, the honor of playing doubles for the U. S. against France in the approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against...