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...Admiral was evidently about to utter things even more provocative than his recent diagnosis of women as the cause of all war. The second cigars had nearly expired when the Admiral's reedy voice attacked his concluding crescendo : "We won the War. though by the narrowest possible margin. But already we are confronted with another danger at least as great, the pacifist movement. If the men and women of this Nation do not get together and stop that movement, our National security will soon become National peril, such as prevailed in 1914 and 1915, when I had the honor...
Both Linscott, in the Crimson box, and Hadley, the Brown pitching ace, seemed to completely bewilder their opposing batsmen. Each nine got a quota of three hits and it was only by collecting their safeties in the same period, coupled with Hadley's triple, that gave the visitors their margin of victory...
...pound event was the third of a program out of four, and Yale showed a decided superiority over Princeton and Cornell. The first Yale crew in winning from Cornell by only six seconds had the smallest margin of victory. This perhaps might be called a low-water mark in Yale rowing in recent years, for usually Yale leads her rivals by a greater margin. It must be taken into consideration, however, that Spock, the number seven man of the Olympic crew, was forced out of the boat earlier in the week with a sprained ankle, and that his place...
...sprints should go to Harvard by a very narrow margin, although Cooley of Exeter is no man to be left out of the reckoning. The Crimson star, Burns, however, is picked to hold his own against any of his opponents...
...time, the Tiger has played a series of hard games, and in its win column are numbered teams that have taken the Crimson into camp handily. Bowdoin was beaten 14 to 7, Georgetown bowed to a 6 to 2 tune and Columbia was trimmed by the same one run margin by which the New York, nine defeated Harvard. Yet in the past, comparative scores have availed the Tiger little...