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...Princeton team lost several chances to score, two attempts at field-goals going wide, and an opportunity for a touchdown being spoiled when one of their forward passes was intercepted. They showed flashes of offensive power, but lacked the final punch necessary to push the abll over their opponent's goal-line...
...given the ball in the final attempt to score, was thrown back for a loss of three yards. It was not until the end of the last quarter, when Princeton recovered a Williams' fumble on the latter's 16-yard line, that her backfield had the power to push the ball across the line for a touchdown. Law, amid breathless excitement, succeeded in gaining the point necessary to avert defeat...
...will be between the University crew and the Cornell university crew. Both of the Cornell crews left immediately after their race on Lake Cayuga, Saturday and arrived here yesterday stopping at the Hotel Victoria in Boston. Winning by one length over Princeton and five lengths over Yale, Cornell will push the University eight to the limit. This morning the three visiting boats will have a long practice and go over the course of the race. It has been practically decided that the order of the University boat will be the same as that announced last week after the Philadelphia regatta...
From now on they will push the work actively, and the last excuse of the delinquent undergraduate is gone. Let him remember that his pledge was more than a signification of good will; it was a promise to pay. So long as he holds off from redeeming his promise; so much he costs the committee in time and money, so much he breaks an unwritten understanding between graduates and undergraduates, and so much he hinders the consummation of that end most devoutly to be wished--a new gymnasium...
With lack-lustre eyes we take our dials--those large, combination, chronological, time-telling dials which indicate the day of the month and the progress of the moon and give a musical interpretation of the hour, if you push the right button--from our pokes, and gaze. Funny enough! The Mid-Years are upon us. In short, they begin today. If they would only catch cold like the rest of us, and--here the analogy becomes ineffective--be permitted to hibernate for a week in Stillman, we could take advantage of the miserable weather to stay indoors and fortify...