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Seniors in the academic department and in Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven, selecting their "favorite college next to Yale", differ widely as to whether the coveted second place should fall to Princeton or Harvard. "Ac" prefers Cambridge culture by a 12-point margin but the husky engineers of "Shef" are apparently repelled by Harvard's reputed aestheticism, and pass her by entirely in favor of Princeton, Dartmouth and Smith. Consequently, in the combined total Princeton takes a considerable lead...
...benefits of coeducation (absit omen!) are faithfully set down. Now both authors write of love after the college fashion, and accordingly you are bound to recognize some undergraduate friend "be he scholar, be he spark". Consider, for example, the diplomatic telephone call, the battle of wits in the margin of a library book, and there...
...Once George III encountered the great Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
...considerable tract of land" is worth in this instance $250,000,000. The Privy Council awarded it to Newfoundland a fortnight ago, and quashed the claim which Canada has pressed for 25 years that Newfoundland should have only the "edge or margin" and Canada the hinterland or "inland" coast, rich in vast mineral deposits unsuspected by George...
...hard-played, fast game at the Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night, the Harvard basketball team won a clean-cut victory over Yale by a 30 to 12 margin. The University players, in defeating Yale for the third successive year, displayed a decided superiority over their opponents. Their play was considerably better than the best they had shown in any game of their mediocre preliminary season...