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Excuse, please, my naive and unwanted observations, but I'm new around here and haven't yet acquired that refined, cultivated apathy which evidently marks the Harvardman's attitude to sports and intercollegiate athletics. Sure, we have top teachers, a peerless curriculum, and the best of facilities, but our gut and fight is something that I wouldn't boast about. The CRIMSON doesn't have much to crusade about nowadays, why not help out here? it seems to me that a university newspaper holds the privilege of improving its school spirit. Let's begin by getting some meat...
Everybody agreed that picking Francis Ouimet (pronounced we met) for this rare honor was a happy choice and a nice gesture. Ouimet has been a name in transatlantic golf ever since the day in 1913 when, as a 20-year-old, he whipped Britain's peerless pair, Harry Vardon (by five strokes) and Ted Ray (by six), in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. Since then, as a player or the non-playing captain of every U.S. Walker Cup team until 1949, Ouimet has won an unequaled place in the hearts of R. & A. members, surpassing even Bobby...
...just before opening, when one of the two other girl dancers fell ill. Since no one else knew both parts, Moira stepped down to take it; Margot was called in to dance the lead. Said the critics next day: "Moira is taller, more girlish, a dainty princess. Fonteyn is peerless, a queen of precision." Said diplomatic Moira, "All things considered, it came off rather well...
...built of heavy, costly solid iron with light, strong frames made of steel sheets rolled into tubes. His son, Arthur O. (for Oliver) Smith, who gave the company its present name, used the tubular construction to build the industry's first pressed-steel auto frames (for the 1903 Peerless...
...Springboard. Wilson had been moved to G.E.'s great plant at Bridgeport, Conn., a change which gave him the luxuries of which he had dreamed: a house with a lawn and trees, golf, a Peerless automobile ''built like a locomotive." At Bridgeport, too, he landed on the springboard which was to propel him to the final dizzy pinnacle of the G.E. hierarchy. President Swope-in one of the sweeping changes of policy which have always been one of the keys to American productivity -decided to take the services of electricity to the people...