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Laymen who dramatize in their imaginations the great discoveries of science, would find the actual moment of such discoveries dull enough. One more figure added to a string of decimals, a barely perceptible change of color in a test tube, a splinter of light measured against the angle of a graphed mirror-and the thing is done. The laboratory worker wipes his hands on his apron and goes home to write a paper for the next meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week that notable body, convening in Madison, Wis., listened to various amazing reports...
Harold ("Red") Grange of Illinois (who has received so much publicity that the Knickerbocker Ice Co. recommended its product to the public on the score that he has carried ice on his back) sat on a bench and saw his second and third string teammates beat Wabash on a sloppy field...
Nothing more than signal drill is scheduled for the University today, but the blackshirts will probably put on a series of Yale plays for the benefit of the first-string...
...second-string backfield yesterday found McGlone directing Chauncey, Barbee, and Howe, with Puffer relieving Chauncey when the drop-kicker went to team A. Barbee has not figured in many games this season, but last year's Freshman pitcher is an excellent passer and a fair punter, and has come along rapidly of late. It will not be surprising if he sees action against the Blue...
...years ago today a team of Crimson substitutes defeated Brown, 16 to 7. A year later Brown, with the great Pollard running wild, rolled up 21 points against the Harvard reserves. It was the Crimson policy to start a substitute team against Brown, in order to save the first string men for the Yale encounter...