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...Theopold '25, tackle 21 186 6.01 St. Marks Turney '24, center 19 165 6.00 Horace Mann Vietor '26, tackle 19 183 5.11 Exeter YALE STATISTICS First Eleven Name and Position Age Wt. Ht. Prep. School Bingham '26, end 20 178 6.00 Flushing High Milstead '26, tackle 22 215 6.01 Rock Island High Eckhart '25, guard 19 200 6.01 Hotchkiss Lovejoy '25, center 20 190 5.10 Exeter Diller '24, guard 26 192 6.00 Sanantio High Blair '24, tackle 21 195 6.03 Hotchkiss Luman '25, end 23 180 6.02 Exeter Richeson '24, quarterback 21 174 5.10 New Orleans High Neale '25, back...
...mummies are to be found in the museum at Santa Cruz, the capital of the islands. There are also many who believe that the Guanches are direct descendants of the Cro-Magnon man and skull measurements seem to verify this. Among interesting relics left by these people are the rock drawings on the island of Gomera, the southern-most of the Canaries...
...next made sail for the Madeira Islands. The incident by far most interesting on our stop here was a week's hunting trip on three lonely islands in this group, the Desertas. These three long, narrow islands, nearly unapproachable from the sea because of the steep rock cliffs rising out of the water, are owned by two Englishmen who purchased them from the Portuguese government at auction and who used them as game reserves. These Desertas are uninhabited by human beings because of the scarcity of water and the un-favorableness of the approach from...
...Goats were the objects of our expedition. These goats now wild but descended from a domestic herd left on the islands 400 years ago by Zargo, manage to obtain water for life from dew and scant fresh water pools in the rock, inaccessible to men. The goats were remarkably agile in moving about in the rocks but they did not far surpass in this art, the natives of the Madeiran village of Canico. These, accustomed to hunting the shearwater gulls among the rocks for the purpose of their feathers and wax, and the orchilla lichen for its dye mounted...
...present system gives Harvard, with two weeks between its major games, an exceptional and unfair advantage. But Harvard and Yale have always refused to consider any system which did not bring the season to an end with the traditional contest between the Crimson and the Blue. On this rock have foundered all the plans for rotating schedules and the like. However large some particular game may bulk in any specific year the contest with Yale is Harvard's big game and unless undergraduate and graduate opinion changes very radically it will always remain the last on Harvard's schedule...