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Captain D. W. Comins of the Worcester team surprised everyone by taking first in the 40-yard dash, beating Jenkins by a scant margin. He later on ran lead-off man in the relay against J. E. Merrill, and outran him completely, handing over a quarter-lap lead to the next...
...afternoon. J. E. Merrill of the Freshmen got the jump at the start and led the field a fast pace, until on the last corner T. Durant of the schoolboys took the inside by a bit of clever running and beat Merrill to the tape by a scant few inches. The 600-yard run was marred by a couple of falls at the beginning of the second lap, when W. Tibbetts, of Worcester, leading, with Thomas Campbell of the 1924 team a few feet behind, tripped on the corner, but got up just in time to spill Campbell...
...belonged to the great group of Harvard professors which included Norton, Child Shaler, Royce and William James; but almost as indisputably he stood apart from it--was never really of it. To the fetich of German "scientific" scholarship, the true divinity of which no one then doubted, he paid scant homage. His mind worked by flashes--flashes of wit, of iconoclastic paradox, of profound intelligence and of almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote it was exhaustive...
...concentration between sciences on the one hand and languages and history on the other. Figures show that in most high schools one year of Latin is required of all except vocational students, a second year is taken by two-thirds of the students, and a third year by a scant fifth, most of the students transferring to modern languages or to the sciences at the end of their second year. This arrangement has in the past rendered many good students ineligible for the examinations by lack of either three years of Latin or two years of a modern language, either...
...strategists have reliable information on which to base their future plans of offense and defense for this game. Chicago has missed out in the Conference title for several years but Stagg can always be counted on to turn out a first-class team. Ohio beat the Maroon by a scant one point this fall...