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...that hamper indoor rose culture. A very small quantity of ether does the trick-about a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing 27 cubic feet, or a cubic centimeter injected into the stem. The method is most successful with woody plants like the rose or lilac. All the latent buds or shoots are stimulated, instead of the few preponderant ones which develop naturally. This may lead to great economy in the cultivation of tuberous plants, such as dahlias and potatoes. Plants could be grown from small pieces of the tubers, etherized. There is apparently no depression on plant life...
...from making a touchdown against the Tiger just as it had failed to make a touchdown against Dartmouth. The Crimson line had a superlative lift and the Tigers were forced to the uttermost to hold their ground at all. The game proved that at last Fisher had transformed the latent power of his heavy forwards into actual strength, usable when the occasion demanded; yet the game also showed that Harvard still lacked a running attack of real ground-gaining ability...
...potentially powerful team all year, a team which has showed occasional flashes of brilliancy and which demonstrated its fighting qualities at Princeton. Potentially, to repeat, it is one of the best Harvard teams of years. On Saturday it will have a chance to prove that it can translate latent power into reality...
Every football team, so the strategists say, has sme particular game in which it suddenly "finds itself", becomes aware of its latent power and uses it as it has never used it before. Then and then only does a team begin to function as a powerful unified machine. Three years ago it was Centre, two years ago Penn State and last year, less decisively, Holy Cross...
...relatively weak team, it is all the more likely to hit its stride a week later against a strong team. The College has known all fall that the football team had power; it has merely been a question when that power should become active and concentrated rather than latent and diversified...