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Each team will be able to present its first string line-up in tonight's contest, although Kent is suffering from an injury received in a practice game in New York last Saturday. Since he is the Crimson's high scorer and most experienced polo player, his loss will be a severe handicap if he is forced to leave the game. Harvard Yale No. 1.--Farrell Hunt No. 2.--Stranahan Baldwin Back.--Kent Hewitt
...with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful, has been proscribed by the British Royal College of Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack of a string of Latin words after his name. He believes he can score over them by healing this crippled daughter of his chief antagonist; she consents, despite a parental frown which cannot straighten her limbs...
Last Saturday a 17-6 defeat by Yale broke a string of five straight victories for the University wrestling team and brought what was hoped to be the first really successful season in eight years to an unsuccessful close. For although the curtain will not officially drop on the 1924 season until after the New England Intercollegiate Championships at Providence Friday and Saturday, the Eli victory last week came as the climax of the year...
...meat producing industry in the United States, but a comparison may help to show how inconceivable it is. ... Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco. A prodigious meat appetite is needed to consume...
...Tuesday the 14 men who played in the Yale games this year elected Edward Mauran Beals Jr. '25, of Boston, captain of the 1925 hockey team. Beals was first string centre last year, and alternated between that position and right wing this year, establishing for himself the reputation of being the fastest skater in college hockey at present...