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Burns, who may now be classed as a regular, leads the Crimson stickmen with an average of .422. Last week he was batting only for .333, but his six hits last week were enough to push his average up to its present mark. Captain Todd follows the Harvard center fielder, and is in turn followed by Zarakov, his rival up to now for the batting crown. The Crimson third sacker also had a good week, pushing his mark up from .307 to its present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BATTING CLIMBS AS FIELDING AVERAGES DROP IN TWO LOOSE CONTESTS | 5/28/1926 | See Source »

Both Taylor and Gates of Princeton will push Kane to his best in the quarter, and the former has a very good chance to win. The array of Crimson distance stars are expecting to furnish each other the stiffest opposition they will get, if Luttman, who has been out this week, with a bad ankle, is right tomorrow and the track is dry he may push Captain Tibbetts to a new two mile record. Tibbetts has had his eye on this mark for over a year now and with the proper conditions this afternoon he will probably go out after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Oarsmen and Tracksters Battle Princeton in Jersey Jungle | 5/8/1926 | See Source »

...some distance, my companions called to me from the back of the car to stop. I applied the brakes, turned around, and sav Matteotti all doubled up and vomiting blood. Five minutes later he was dead. Neither I nor my friends placed a hand on him, except to push him into the car. Fright must have brought on an acute recrudescence of the tuberculosis from which he suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Matteotti Trial | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...Albert J. Loveridge of the Harvard zoology staff, who was for eight years an assistant game warden of the Tanganyika territory. Mechanics at the National Zoo built scores of collapsible crates. Keeper Frank Lowe of the Zoo was bidden along to care for animals captured. It was planned to push inland from Dar-es-Salaam, establish a base camp near the railroad and stay five or six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...general conclusions on existence as a term of four years will permit. Din, educational or otherwise, is not consonant with formal education. The student is somewhat in the position of a diver gauging the spring of the board and the depth of the pool. It is hardly prudent to push him in before he has some idea of how far he will be thrown and how deep the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SYMPOSIUM OF SAGES | 2/26/1926 | See Source »

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