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...Scoop," shorter of the number's two stories, Mr. Babcock's hero becomes a cub reporter because the journalistic conversation of his fellow-under graduates "had lit the glowing fires beneath my dreamy soul." The pathos of an ending whose somewhat enigmatic nature may be due to striving after up-to-date fictional methods is not effective after the apparent burlesque of the pursuit of a mysterious looking individual...
Reed--Double scoop credit for dropping pop fly. First bases on third strike...
...members of the CRIMSON staff have grown gray-headed in the pursuit of fleeting news for thirty-eight years, but tonight they hope to get the bigest scoop known to man and bear home the remains of a little "News" of a blue hue on a crimson shield. The two teams will line-up during the day o Yale Field, both confident of success, both full of determination, anticipation, and other things; and the battle that will be waged will be really royal. Special bulletins at the Union, Hemenway Gymnasium, and various resorts of sports and sportsmen in Cambridge. Boston...
That today's game will be stupid and uninteresting goes without saying. Against Rube Phillips, of Middletown Springs, and Three-Fingered Bennett, (Manager Henderson is not now sure which he will start), the scoop-chasers will be fortunate to cop a single bingle, while the entire staff of candidates' slab artists will be unable to stop the sangerfest of batting editors. Aside from the tremendous mental and physical gap separating editors from the lowly candidates, any extra base hits will be counted heavily against the latter, and scoop credit will be given them for all errors. Thus we feel that...
...enterprise. This "story" (not the first of its kind to appear under the same signature) should be of much assistance to the Harvard football management in completing its arrangements for next fall. However, we think it only fair to the other Boston papers and ourselves to expose this latest "scoop" in its true light. Considering the quantity of athletic news which Harvard gives impartially to the Boston papers, it seems strange that one of them should omit the courtesy of waiting for official verification on such an important article as the complete football schedule...