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...many others vaguely peeping through the pages of books. Did you know that the fastidious John Dryden was once a boy, went to a grammar school, actually scrawled his name in a Greek copy book with large letters; and, not content with that, scribbled all the way down the margin setting it off in squares just as some of our young aspirants do here at Harvard. Nor are the editors on the Advocate the only fellows who have ever corrected their manuscripts: Voltaire's "Mahomet" looks like a blue book in an English A final...
...shelter of the west bank on the upper mile of the course, where the water was not quite so rough. The feature of the day was a three quarter mile sprint in the afternoon in which the second eight barely nosed out the first University crew by the margin of a quarter of a length...
...much misdirected emphasis in a system which sets up Victory and Defeat as the opposite poles of glory and despair, between which there is no middle course, as there is in a system which purports to ignore the stimulus of victory entirely. It is obviously ridiculous that a margin of six feet in a crew race or a goal after a touchdown in a football game should be enough to send one team home heart-broken, "all in", disgraced,--at least in their own minds,--while the members of the other team mount pedestals to become objects for little short...
Half a point was the margin of victory in the interscholastic meet at the Stadium Saturday when Newton High defeated Medford High, its nearest competitor, and won the cup offered by the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association. The final score was 35 1-2 to 35. No other high schools were in the same class with the two leaders, Fairhaven capturing third place with only 10 1-2 points, while Lynn Classical and Rindge Tech were fourth and fifth with 9 2-3 and 6 1-3 receptively...
Earlier in the afternoon in a race for the four leading Freshman crews, the first crew took the lead from the start and finished with a four length margin of victory over the seconds. The third and fourth crews were in a dead heat and trailed the seconds by about a length...