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Yale triumphed over the University track team, scoring 64 1-4 points to 52 3-4, at New Haven Saturday afternoon under the most unfavorable track conditions of mud and rain. Although the University scored the greater number of first places, winning six places outright and sharing in two ties, Yale's second and third winners outscored those of the University...
...distances and angles, and the individual having the highest score for any year will win the cup for that year. Each year, the winner's name will be engraved on the cup, and the man having the highest total at the end of ten years will win the cup outright. Rules governing the contest will be published by the management on the day on which it takes place...
...winners of each class tournament will play the best man of his class on the University squad to decide the class championships. Since all Freshmen may compete, the 1917 title will be settled outright. The four class winners will then play each other for the University championship...
...goal,--the prime ministership. After the passage of the Reform Bill, his party went out of power. But the year 1874 again found him prime minister, this time as the one who should develop the Imperialist policy. Yet, in spite of his apparent vacillation, he was never suspected of outright unscrupulousness, gaining as a leader both power and respect, and adding many new territories to the English Empire...
...Mitigating Circumstance" concerns a freakish motor-boat which gives its owner two unhappy hours and affords the reader an excuse for a few smiles. Perhaps if the humor were not so self-conscious the reader might laugh outright occasionally...