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Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
...taking a dislike to his shy looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning uneasily. E. E. Porterfield...
...University second baseman died on the paths when Burns rolled out, second to first. Fons showed his first sings of weakening in this frame and it appeared as if the Crimson hitters had him on the down path. Barbee retired the Crusaders in their half of the fifth with three straight strikeouts. The University hurler set the two leaders of the Holy Cross batting order down with eightpitched balls. In their half of the same inning, the Crimson attack chased one more run across the plate to lead the visitors for the first time. Jones led off with a single...
...recent editorial the CRIMSON suggested that there did lurk certain fanaticism in the statement issued by the Association of Professors. Though football is not America's "most healthful and wholesome exercise" it is not the primrose path to any Shakespearian hades. And certain members present at the meeting of the Association who firmly admire football in its proper place have reminded inquisitive Cantabridgians that they did not sign the report and that it was merely the tentative plan of a group there present...
...Especially noticeable is De Mille's over-emphasis of symbolisms. It is all right to show occasional close-ups of isolated parts of the body. But one does become tired of hundreds of feet devoted to nothing but showing first the wornout boots of the peasants on the tow-path, and later the dainty ankles of the aristocrats in the same position. Then, too, there are endless shots of hands to bring out the contrast between those of the nobility and those of the workers. The face of a clock is shown so often that the sight of it becomes...