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...Withington '09 was the star of both meets, winning the 50, 100 and 220-yard swims in fast time and finishing exceptionally strong in the relays, well ahead of McKinlay of Columbia and Kohn of the C. C. N. Y. team. His time of 1 minute in the 100-yard swim against Columbia is exceptionally fast and established a new record for the Morningside tank, as did also his performance in the 50 and 220-yard swims. The water polo team lost both games; it was overwhelmed by Columbia by the score of 7 to 0, and defeated...
Yale won the annual dual swimming meet and Water polo game, held last night at the Brookline Swimming Tank, by the score of 33 to 20 in the meet and 4 to 0 in the water polo. P. Withington '09 was the star performer, for he won all his events with ease and made 15 of the 20 points for his side. Although he did not equal his record of 59 seconds in the 100-yard race made in the interclass races, he swam the distance in 1 minute 2 3-5 seconds, thus beating the intercollegiate record...
...Tank. The University team is handicapped by the lack of practice brought about by inadequate tank facilities and by the loss of several good swimmers. The water polo team has been coached by J. B. Green and Dean James of Brookline. For Harvard, P. Withington '09 is easily the star, having recently swam the 100 yards in 59 seconds at the interclass meet; R. F. Hoyt '10 and T. G. Aspinwall '10 are also fast in the dashes...
...following books by Harvard graduates have recently been published: "The Water Star," by G. H. Badger t. '86; "A Gentleman of Fortune," by H. C. Bailey '97; "Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism," by W. T. Brewster '92; "The Santa Claus Club," by L. J. Bridgman '81; "Letters to American Boys," by W. H. Carruth p.'89; "The Making of Religion," by S. M. Crothers h. '99; "Annotated Rules of the Federal Counts of the United States," by W. W. Dewhurab '75; "From the Isles," by A. D. Ficke '04; "The Castles and Keeps of Scotland," by F. R. Fraprie...
...that a man who has gained this sense must guard against letting it separate him from the crowd: his first duty must be to show other men that they too have a call. That great failure in leadership, Napoleon Bonaparte, had the fault that he saw only his own star of destiny, and there came a time when other men failed to see that star. Men of vocation, to use their power must fit in with other men of vocation. The alliance of Wash- ington and Hamilton: of Lincoln with the members of his cabinet-all men with a strong...