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...where-when-how formula for first paragraphs, with its variations peculiar to various copy-desks. But within the narrow confines of a formula, triteness is escapable only by the unusually agile-minded reporter. The editors of this anthology have selected 70 examples of such agility -straight reporting, foreign correspondence, sport, "features," human interest, interviews and personality stories from "the vast and sprawling newspaper field,'' apologizing for necessary omissions but not for the merits of any inclusion...
...competition in the Basin will be more than fierce. In the last two years M. I. T. has forged ahead rapidly in this sport. Cornell is never without several powerful eights, and Pennsylvania is noted for its high-stroke, hard fighting early season crews...
...eliminate, but to provide as many coaches as are needed to help every undergraduate who wants to play. Exercise is a big motive and last year the Harvard Athletic Association employed forty-four paid coaches at a total cost of $75,000 to supervise fourteen different kinds of sport, for which thirty-nine different schedules were made with teams from other colleges or schools...
...situation would be greatly relieved if Harvard could have an alumnus with a sound experience and a broad knowledge of athletics to serve under the Athletic Committee as its representative in the day-in and day out administration of athletics. He would have general supervision of all branches of sport, would advise as to the appointment of coaches, try to build up a permanent system of coaching and training in each branch of athletics, coordinate the different branches, strengthen the weak spots and see that the strong ones are generally maintained and generally reinvigorate Harvard athletics and hold them...
...Morgan '11, of Honolulu, Hawaii, has notified the authorities in charge of lacrosse at the Universities that he has donated a cup for that sport similar to the Wingate Cup now being contested for that sport similar to the Wingate Cup now being contested for in baseball. The cup, a large silver trophy, decorated with lacrosse emblems, is to remain permanently in the possession of the University, but is to have inscribed on it each year the name of the undergraduate, of whatever class, who has that year done the most for lacrosse at Harvard, in playing, in training...