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...strong, but chiefly owing to the absence of Captain Hicks, have made little progress in passing and team-play. If the forwards show any such unity of play as they did in the last half of the Cornell game, Columbia's defence will have to be unusually efficient to prevent their scoring...
President Lowell's plans for the modification of the elective system are embodied in the new Faculty rules for the choice of studies. Such restrictions as have been imposed will make but little interference with the choice of the average student. They are safeguards to prevent the abuses to which unchecked freedom in the selection of courses has given rise, rather than hard and fast rules making a prescribed curriculum. Within the limits set by the new rules there will be abundant room for election, but there will be less chance for misguided experimentation...
...following rule has been made by the Union Library Committee to prevent the loss of books...
...professional failure. The dentist has not succeeded in keeping them. In many cases, of course, he has had no chance to do so. Anaesthetics and good instruments have robbed tooth-pulling of many of its former terrors. All along, the skilful dentist has been able to lesson or prevent many of the acute pains which disorders of the teeth and jaws frequently cause. He can treat successfully inflamed teeth and abscesses in the jaws, both of which are apt to give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount or the intensity...
...Battery goal-line was never in danger, while the Cadets were kept continually on the defensive. Gutterson, Ware and Beebe played a strong game for the Cadets and it was chiefly due to the Battery's concentrated attack on these three men that the Cadets were able to prevent a score. For the Battery, Clark played the best game, doing some excellent kicking...