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...ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity and time are available...
After lunch he kept the margin until the 61st hole, where people that are 12 up in a 72-hole match either win or prolong the agony. Jones holed out from 30 feet ? but so, with a last furtive twitch, did Hagen. For his 237 strokes (seven under an average of 4's, five under the pars played), he then collected what Amateur Jones would have shunned in any case?swag; of $6,800, a record for this type of engagement...
Harvard was given its first collegiate fencing defeat when Columbia beat the University fencing team by a score of 8 to 5 at the Hemenway gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. The visitors won by narrow five to four margin with the foils, but took the epee event with ease winning three out of four matches...
...handicapped for several weeks by the loss of Miller and several other regulars through sickness and injuries. It was chiefly on account of this that they lost to Brown. West Point, and Lehigh, all three of which had exceptionally strong teams. The Yale team has, however, defeated small margin. The University lost to M.I.T., using many substitutes, and later by a close decision to Princeton. But Yale's apparent advantage through her victory over Princeton is counterbalanced by the University's win from Brown last Saturday. On the basis of comparative scores there is thus little to choose between tonight...
...first game started fast with Haskins jumping off to a quick lead. A few minutes of play found him leading Wright by a 10 to 5 score. Wright, however, steadied as the game progressed and soon overcome the 5-point margin of his opponent. After a great deal of lengthy volleying, Wright forged to the front, and finally took the game...