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...championship of the University by a small margin. In the tournament for the championship of the College, he was defeated by Malcolm Bradlee '22, captain of the University squash racquets team. Channing Wakefield 1L., a member of last year's University team, won the championship of the Law School. Myles P. Baker 1G.B., also a member of last year's University team, won the championship of the Business School. C. B. Crockett E.S. won in the Engineering School, and N. E. A. Hinds Sp. in the Graduate School. In the Freshman championship W. P. Dixon '25 was the winner over...
...number more than a dozen: Governor, Vice-Governor, Insular Auditor, directors of the six departments in the administration, three judges in the Supreme Court, and four American assistant chiefs of the Constabulary under a Spanish brigadier. The army forces in the Philippines are cut down far below the margin of safety; and the coastal defences have been stripped to the limit. Philippine autonomy as it exists today is protected not by the battery at Corregidor or the guns of Cavite, but by such teeth as there are in the four-power treaty. Meanwhile, the islands have thrived under American rule...
...defeats. Roland Fleer '25 who has had some experience at the University of Pennsylvania, gained second honors with only two losses in his eight matches while Boyce was third. Both Boyce and J. K. Watson '23 won five and lost three bouts, but Boyce had a small margin in the number of touches scored...
Crew A, stroked by Walter Amory '24, held the lead after the start and had a comfortable margin of three lengths at the finish line. Although Crew B, getting away to a perfect start, shot ahead for a few strokes at the beginning, the advantage was of short duration and the first University boat steadily increased its lead to the end. The time was rather slow, but this may be attributed to the rough surface of the basin, a sharp cross wind serving to make the water choppy to such an extent that anything like smooth rowing was impossible...
...mile course was won by D. F. M. 1, the later eight not finding it necessary to extend itself in order to cross the line half a length ahead of A. C. M. 1. It was the superior weight of the former combination that gave it the necessary margin of victory. Out - scaling their lighter rivals by a full fifteen pounds to the man, the football oarsmen forced their way to a commanding lead by sheer power of stroke, a last minute spurt by the autumn crew boat falling to cut down their lead by any appreciable distance...