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...into our system of admission for the first time. Pursuant to the Faculty's vote, we are to receive those who qualify in the regular way by examination, whose average is 75 per cent or higher and all those admitted without examination. This may or may not leave a margin under the quota. If it does, the Committee is to fill the quota by selecting those who on all evidence obtainable have best proved their competence...
Hugh Walpole says that an unmistakable diagnostic of one who reads for education is the presence of scrawling annotations or sententious question marks in the margin of his books. If this is true, some extenuation must be granted to the frequent bibliocasts who leave their tell-tale tracks in the books of Widener. The comments embellishing these volumes are merely evidences of the careful if belligerent attendant with which the annotators read...
...Graduate School Basketball League brought its season to a close last night. The final game between the first year Law School team and the third year Law team resulted in a 32 to 26 victory for the former. The Law I team won the championship by a comfortable margin, losing only one game out of 12 played. The championship squad was composed of six former college letter men, and one other man who had not won a college letter. It was composed of W. B. Hobbs, formerly of Knox College, Eznick Bogosian of Tufts, S. C. Cleaves of Princeton, Donald...
...Bedford, was elected captain of the wrestling team yesterday afternoon to succeed C. H. Bradford '26, captain of this year's team. Wood prepared at Milton Academy, where he twice won the school championship, and captained his Freshman team, which was defeated by Yale by the slight margin of 14-11, despite the fall gained by the 1927 leader. During the past two years, he has been wrestling in the 158-pound division and has been a member of the two teams which won New England Intercollegiate championships. He was injured this year and was unable to enter the Yale...
...must be kicked from the 20-yard line by the team against whom the safety was made. The reason for its adoption is that safeties were being made intentionally to waste time and thereby prevent the opposing team from making a touchdown. A team in the lead by the margin of one touchdown can afford to allow its opponent as many as three safeties. The new play makes it absolutely necessary to put the ball into play by kicking. This takes the ball away from the team playing for time...