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Revived last year after a lapse of nearly a decade occasioned by the lack of proper facilities, Harvard's swimming team had an unusually successful season for a new sport. Winning six out of eight meets, it lost only to Army by a small margin and to Yale by a rather large one. Coach Ulen spent the greater part of his time on Sophomores in order to build up a strong squad for future years, with the result that most of last year's team is back this season...
Private schools retain their lead over public schools in the number of men admitted but merely by a margin of less than 10 per cent. The percentage of candidates from public schools who were refused is greater than that for private institutions. On the other hand, over 93 per cent of those admitted under the Highest Seventh Plan were from high schools...
Reading, Pa., for the first time since the War, fused its Republicans and Democrats, discarded by a decisive margin its four-year-old Socialist regime headed by Mayor John Henry Stump...
...accent the curve of her neck. In her stall she shows traces of the nervousness which is noticeable in all progeny of her mother. She regards all small objects as likely to be edible and wears a wire muzzle to prevent her chewing her blanket off. The wide margin of Seaton Pippin's superiority was not approached in other classes at last week's show. For the last few years judges at American horse shows have awarded most of the saddle class prizes to Kentucky-bred horses, a procedure that stirs lively opposition in devotees of the British thoroughbred strain...
...covering and the general commodity rise sent the metal to 35|f an ounce against the year's low of 25!^. For the first time silver trading on the National Metal Exchange, Manhattan, became clamorous, wild. Public buying was attracted because silver can be bought on a 6% margin. Companies with stakes in silver-currency nations were in demand, shares of mining com- panies were widely bought. Copper remained at 7^ but it was reported that consumers were taking all offerings. Manchurian war talk aided bullishness in copper, but the strongest copper shares were those with big silver interests...