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Yale's track victory was by the scant margin of one third of a point, thus making the difference between the Crimson and Blue records even less that it appears at first glance. The other two major sport encounters both resulted in decisive victories. Harvard took the annual Commencement baseball series in straight games, slugging 'strength proving the chief factor in deciding the issue in favor of the Cambridge ball players. The first game which was played in New Haven was a see-saw affair, the final Crimson run being delayed until the eighth inning. The second and final game...
...vote-getting, it was Candidate Woollen who gave Senator Arthur R. Robinson a bad scare last autumn as one of the Democratic senatorial aspirants that cut the Republican lead from its normal 100,000 in Indiana to a scant...
...King and is shipped off to Porto Rico. There she tries to live up to her subtitled name of "she-devil" by delicately flogging her peons, riding like Tom Mix and crossing swords with an evil-visaged bandit. Despite Dukes, Duchesses, bandits and a lost daughter, there is scant hair-raising...
...disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid that Swift, Fielding, Defoe and many of our other great English novelists would have made a scant living in this state...
...Donaghy '29, who led Henry Chauncey '28 by the scant margin of five points a week ago has taken undisputed possession of first place among the individual hitters, having bolstered his average to .434 while that of Chauncey, still his nearest rival, has fallen to .355. W. W. Lord '28 and W. B. Jones '28 are the only regulars beside Donaghy whose averages have gone up as a result of their hitting in the last three games. H. W. Burns '28 still leads the field in runs scored with 19, almost a fourth of the team's total...