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...Pound Club with four straight victorious decisions and 35 points to its credit is at present at the top of the list. The Ames-Gray Club with four closer decisions and a lower point score is second...
Employing a bewildering short passing attack and a tenacious five-man defense, Columbia's stellar basketball team, Intercollegiate League leaders, triumphed over the University five last night 28 to 22. It was the Crimson's first reverse of the season after five straight victories...
...conjunction, the orbit of Venus being located about one-third of the distance between that of the earth and the sun. At every fifth conjunction, or approximately eight years apart, there is a transit of Venus, i.e., Venus, the earth and the sun are in the same straight line. The planes of the orbits are at a slight angle to each other, and there are eccentricities in the planets' motions, but not sufficient to disturb the regularity of the 8-year transits...
With a string of five straight victories to spur them on, the University basketball players will face their sternest test of the season this evening when the Columbia quintet appears at the Hemenway court. The New York collegians are rated as the best team in the Intercollegiate League and have made the impressive record of nine victories in ten starts...
...Honor, Mayor James M. Curley is one of those delightful people who are always saying perfectly ridiculous things with straight faces, and thereby getting themselves gossiped about and quoted on all the front pages. And when he comes forth with an abandoned statement as his latest concerning the responsibility of the Republican party for Boston's bootleggers, he deserves all the space he gets, as a worthy exponent of the national unconscious humor...