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...close ninth, Mr. Bruce had apparently averted the greatest danger. The insurgents began experimenting with various progressive candidates. Mr. Couzens gained favor and secured the votes of Borah, Gooding, Norbeck, Jones. Mr. Cummins also voted (for the first time) for Mr. Couzens, the object being to prevent a sudden shift of the insurgents from naming Smith. With a fifth day of balloting in sight the 'deadlock continued...
...have increased the size of papers, so that all the profit must be made-and often some of the expense borne-by advertising revenues. They have made the production of a newspaper an enterprise for large capital, with the consequent driving out of the old editor-owner and the shift of command from the editorial to the business and circulation departments...
...winter schedules of the University and Freshman track teams, several changes were announced. Both teams will meet M. I. T. on January 19. The date of the Freshman meet with Huntington School was shifted from February 8 to February 26. At the same time the spring track schedule for the University team was approved. There is, however, still some uncertainty as to whether or not the meet with Yale will take place on June 7, or on June 16. It had been originally planned to hold the meet at the later date, but conflict with the dates of the Olympic...
...Haven, Conn., November 21.--A short scrimmage after an intense signal drill featured the last hard workout of the year for the Yale football team today. Although the coaches had originally scheduled a light work-out for this afternoon, there was a sudden shift in plans and for half an hour Coach Jones had his University team scrimmaging the second team behind closed doors in the Bowl. The first team line-up yesterday was the same as that which started against Princeton last week except for Hulman, and it is probable that the same team will face Harvard on Saturday...
Rockne places his strategic dependence on a bewildering snap shift and persistent forward passing. He gives his men only one scrimmage a week. He looks like a bulldog, has a bulldog's vocabulary. He has lost only three games in six years...