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...spoke at some length on efficiency and the keen competition of modern times. The men who succeed are the men who can work without supervision, who know what to do without being told, and who, in addition can supervise others...
...excitement for the second day of the regatta. Getting away together the three second dormitory crews rowed the first quarter-mile side by side. Gradually, however, the Gore boat began to creep ahead, and led the Standish crew to the finish line by a scant three-quarters of a length with the Smith crew a like distance behind Standish. Four boats lined up for the second heat in the competition for the Filley cup, which was won by the third Eliot crew, the third and fourth Thayer eights getting second and third respectively...
...crews marked the first day of the fall regatta. The preliminary races for the Filley Cup and the Slocum Trophy were rowed against a head wind over the half-mile stretch upstream. The fifth Eliot crew defeated the fifth Thayer in an interesting race by a scant length. The race between the three third dormitory crews was close and exciting, the Gore crew leading the Standish to the finish line by 3-4 of a length, with the Smith crew coming in a close third. The orders...
...Dramatic Club play competition this fall was one of the best in the his-today of the organization. Thirty-nine plays were handed in, a large percentage of them being three acts or more in length. Also, as has not been the case in previous years, a large number, especially of the longer pieces, are comedies, and a few very humorous farces have been submitted. The winning play or plays will be presented in Cambridge at Brattle Hall on December 8 and 10, and in Boston at Copley Hall on December...
...CRIMSON, and he receives a notice that he has won a John Harvard Scholarship. He may hear in a vague way that there is such a thing as a Detur,--a most mysterious object,--attached to a John Harvard Scholarship. No official communication about it reaches him, but at length he learns that it is a book, and that it must be applied for. Upon application, it develops that it is not given out until after the Commencement of his Sophomore year. So presumably he applies at the Office and gets his book in the autumn of his Junior year...