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...refused to pass the puck repeatedly, when scores were possible. Carpenter at goal on the second, did some good work, and as the playing was mostly about his goal, he did well to hold the score down to 9. The best single play of the afternoon was a splendid exhibition of passing by Pell and Ford, after which the latter scored...
...evidences of appreciation of what he has done for us. Like Professor Kuhnemann, he has given his services with single-minded and ardent devotion to his students and with passionate zeal for the cause which he represents. Let us not be reluctant to make make him feel that his splendid work has borne fruit and that he has done a great service not only to his own country, but to Harvard University as well. KUNO FRANCKE...
...Princeton led until a quarter of a mile from the finish, when he weakened badly and finished in fourth place. The University team, who have been accustomed to running on roads and firm fields, were considerably handicapped by the soggy condition of the Princeton course. Dole won a splendid race and came in sixteenth, while Captain Crosby finished twenty-second...
...With this sentence the Globe writer introduces his arraignment of our attitude toward football. The accusation angers us at first; but how is the outsider to know how bitter each successive defeat is to a great majority of undergraduates and graduates? We conceal our disappointment under praises of the "splendid showing," and as a result each year is a repetition of the last and we have the not altogether enviable reputation of being "gentlemanly losers." Is it not time to throw aside the thin veil of easy-going optimism and to make it clearly known that nothing short...
...Memorial Hall, during the dinner hour on Monday and Tuesday, as everyone knows, there was an outburst of splendid enthusiasm in support of the team. It is an especially fine thing on the part of the fellows under the present circumstances. But there are a number of men in the Hall who either apparently misunderstood this manifestation of loyalty, or who are unable to appreciate it, and see only an excuse to "rough-house," hammering dishes and trays, and throwing articles of food to such an extent that the Hall looked as though it had been the scene...