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...Harvard crew will go into Saturday's race a favorite. The severe drubbings handed to M. I. T. and Pennsylvania by the Navy, coupled with the narrow margin of victory gained by the Annapolis oarsmen over Harvard, and the splendid showing of the Watts-stroked eight yesterday, makes it appear that Harvard will win its first victory under the regime of-Head Coach E. J. Brown '96. The crew is by no means certain of victory, however, for its opponents raced Navy early in the season and have had plenty of time to improve. Pennsylvania trailed Yale by five lengths...
Dartmouth and Williams followed Yale as the most popular men's college after Princeton. Yale polled 365 votes and Dartmouth came second with 34. Norma Shearer won a close race from Greta Garbo as the most popular feminine star in the film firmament. Adolph Menjou's margin of popularity over Dougias Fanbanks was 101 to 50 however...
...other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...
...date this year shows that the Harvard-Yale competition is much keener than popular opinion would allow. The edge in victories actually rests with Harvard. Each university can claim three major sport victories, with one tie contest. In the lesser sport engagements, the Crimson holds a 9 to 8 margin of success, with one meeting tied...
...account of its in time qualities and the moral certainty that--come what may--the victor will be the same. In other athletic contests there is a disturbing element of chance. But today there are no upsets. An Olympian calm pervades Plympton Street, for the conventional huge scarlet margin has been got out, dusted, and is ready for service. The Lampoon with its gracile lethargy and its dogged comic spirit has without cessation offered itself as the goat or the this or whatever constitutes the flors and fauna of defeated parties for so many years that the CRIMSON has come...