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...University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa has arranged a baseball game to be played with the Yale chapter at New Haven today. The University men have an unusually strong nine, since they were defeated by a margin of only eight runs by the CRIMSON clouters in their opening game, and on Wednesday they completely swamped the Illustrated aggregation in a game featured by their heavy hitting. H. Epstein '16 will do the pitching for the University chapter, and R. C. Curtis '16 will be on the receiving...
...Union Boat Club crew nosed out a victory over the first Senior crew by a margin of scarcely two feet on the river yesterday. The race started just below the Cottage Farm Bridge and ended at the Harvard Bridge, making a distance of about one mile. The Union boat got the start and held a lead of about a quarter of a length until 200 yards before the finish when the Senior eight put up their stroke and took a slight lead, which was lost, however, in the last few strokes...
...Timothy W. Good was re-elected mayor of Cambridge yesterday over Mr. Wendell D. Rockwood, the candidate of the Citizens' Municipal Party, by the narrow margin of 240 votes. This was the closest vote in many years, Mr. Good winning last year by a 3,000 majority. The Democrats, however, elected only 9 of the 22 councilmen. The aldermen were divided...
Last year Cornell defeated the University by a narrow margin, and Harvard faces an equally strong team tonight. The records of the Cornell relay quartet have been especially good, and through their performance in this department the Ithacans hope to carry off the final honors...
This being the case, a very small margin may decide the outcome. While it can hardly be demonstrated in any given case that vociferous cheering has won victory, yet there have undoubtedly been numerous contests in which the enthusiasm of the spectators has swung the tide. Robustly audible support from the stands shows a team that it is not fighting altogether alone, nor altogether for itself--makes its best a little better. Behind the players is something more powerful than they,--the University...