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...string men. The game Saturday was distinctly a kicking contest and the work of the Harvard punters was very encouraging compared to that in the Maine game. The punts were not very long, but they were well placed and were high enough to give the ends, and frequently the tack, less and guards, time to get under them. If there was any one weakness that showed up clearly it was the inability of the substitute line-men to open up holes for the backs. Twice in the fourth periods Bates took the ball on downs...
...start was made at about 11.30 P. M., with the Phryne and the Dahinda taking the lead. On the tack toward the Long Island shore, the Phryne gained a slight lead. At about 2.30 o'clock both took a long board out into the sound again. At a point between Faulkner's Island and the Cornfield Point Lightship, the Edjacco crossed their bows. As the Phryne and the Dahinda tacked towards Long Island again, a shift of the wind enabled them to take the lead over the Edjacco. The latter was also passed by the Janet. This tack carried...
...note that in their speeches at the Yale alumni dinner last evening the presidents of the two greatest American universities dwelt upon the same subject--the development of the college in American universities. As President Lowell said, educational progress is like beating to windward in a sailboat. The last tack has been that of university development. The ship is now coming about and American institutions are looking to the development of the college as the most imperative need of the immediate future. Thus progress comes from over-accentuation of one thing at a time...
...trials for University swimming team, to compete in the meet with Brown at Providence next Thursday, will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the tack of the Brookline swimming club, Brookline, instead of on Tuesday as was announced in yesterday's CRIMSON. Trials will be held for the following events: relay race, 50 yard dash, 100 yard dash, 220 yard swim, water polo, plunge for distance, and diving. Four men will qualify in the relay, and six in the water polo. In the other events two men will qualify...
...series of handicap tack games is being held, to try out the material and give the new men practice in starting. Nearly all of the squad compete. On Saturday, March 28, a handicap mile run was held, and last Wednesday, a handicap half-mile. On Saturday the candidates took part in the following events: 100-yards dash, 440-yards run, two-mile run, pole vault, hammer throw and high jump. Eighteen men will be kept over for a part of the Easter recess...