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...often attempted before midnight. Others try to study during these hours. The residents of the Yard have the street-cars and the various bells as a diversion; while this year those who dwell on Mt. Auburn street have the pleasant lullaby of the two pumps engaged in the Herculean task of pumping out a spring which flows beside Claverly. Since springs have a habit of filling up as fast as they are pumped out, and as the noises in the Yard seem likewise destined to go on forever, let us not aggravate their inevitable chorus by preventable accompaniments...
Team A went to bat first and made one run when Captain Emmons stole home after having reached third while Lincoln was being trapped and tagged out between third and home. Then Goode warmed up to his task and retired the side. Field was erratic during the second half of the inning and team B scored two runs. Team A failed to get on bases in the next inning but, when team B came to bat, Goode made a run, making his team's total 3. T. K. Oakes '23 relieved Field during the third inning and T. C. Watson...
...whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted, in its Cleveland convention, on the thresh-hold of a wonderful career of public service. --Boston Transcript...
Jimmy Knox, the veteran Crimson scout, and coach of the second eleven, has vigorously pointed out the task that the 1920 football team is up against; and he has shown clearly that not only the team, but the whole undergraduate body is involved. "Atrocious indifference" of the type shown this spring will never carry the squad through a successful season in the fall...
Thus Harvard is confronted obviously with the task of defeating two teams that promise to be far superior to those of last fall. If the material which ought to be available next fall comes through, the problem may be solved, but there is no superabundance of material and we can ill afford to lose any of those whom we are counting on for next November. The coaches can be relied upon to give the last ounce that they possess, but they do not play the game and should not be expected to perform miracles...