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Monday is the newspapers' blue day. Governments, business, sport-men all having been inactive the day before, a Monday's news is scant. Aside from summaries and forecasts, it consists chiefly of the disorderly Sabbath conduct of idle folk?shootings, riotings and worse...
...Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay published a book entitled The Golden Whales of California and Other Poems. Thereafter, many sport writers adopted Poet Lindsay's picturesque phrase, applying it to football teams of California University as a cognomen thought to be appropriate in view of the prowess of those teams. TIME thanks Subscriber Mott for recalling the official epithet...
...Games largely because of its numbers, because of a psychological error on the part of those in charge, and because of the attitude of Americans in general when they travel abroad. The accusation of semi-professionalism in our athletics, of playing the game to win rather than for the sport of it, does not seem to me to hold good us a reason for jealousy or the part of the Continental nations. For with them, in a good many cases, it is not a matter of coaches and masseurs and trainers, but a matter of a personal dislike toward going...
...regular meet can be held, but if the interest of the Freshmen is great enough the department will endeavor to hold a competition of some sort in the Big Tree Pool. Even if no matches are held, members of the class of 1928 may still elect swimming as their sport during the winter...
...squash season is already under way. It began last week with the Freshman tournament in the Freshman Athletic Building. The squad has been chosen for the Freshman team, and from the other men who have shown an interest in the sport three teams will be selected to compete in an interdormitory series. It is expected that a handball tournament will also be held...