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...Yale for its Commencement baseball game and headliner football match, to Princeton for its similar selected dates, to Cornell for the invitation to row and play baseball at the annual Cornell Spring Alumni Day, to Dartmouth for an opportunity to play hockey against the Hanover college at its Winter Sport Carnival, and to Brown and Pennsylvania for dates of honor on the athletic schedules of these institutions. It has occurred to the Yale officials, however, that more strenuous efforts might be made to add to the enjoyment of the stay here of visiting teams and undergraduate delegations, and the plan...
...race of less vitality. If the tribe of weaklings at New Haven is to prosper, farmers must grow alfalfa to get phosphate of lime into the milk. Lime and legumes, says the expert, will go far toward redeeming Yale's athletic prowess. Thus is the intricacy of intercollegiate sport reduced to simple terms of molecules and fertilizers...
...hurdler; and Croft, star sprinter for the Freshmen last year. W. S. Powers, former Exeter star, and the best pole vaulter on the 1923 team, is ineligible also on account of scholastic standing; while Baker, the hammer-thrower and football player, is unable to compete because of the two-sport rule...
...serious concern to those who took it. At Jarvis Field on spring afternoons one may hear shorter oaths relating to something quite different from political rights, but of far more immediate concern to those who utter them. Due to the increase in the popularity of tennis as an undergraduate sport, the students find that the number of courts available is inadequate to meet the demand. Hardly a day passes when the courts at Jarvis, Divinity, and Soldiers Field are not filled to their capacity. Often the waiting line is so long that if a student has an afternoon class...
...completely are our law-making and judicial bodies in the hands of the lawyer class, that public life has degenerated into a mere contest to see whether one side can make laws faster than the other side can pick holes in them. "Diamond cut diamond" is a fascinating sport for every one but the tax-payer: all he wants is a little peace and perhaps a drink...