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Today's match will be the last test match for Harvard before the Crimson poloists entrain on the Westchester Biltmore...
...Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
...Miller '27 and T. G. Moore '29 were the only Crimson stars who lived up to expectations. Miller took first in his heat in the 100, while Moore tossed the Javelin 190 feet 5 1-2 inches to earn the right to compete in today's final test of strength in the event. Miller also fought his way to the semifinals this afternoon in the furlong. The other Harvard runners who came through the first day of the battling were J. S. Malick '27 in the 440 and R. P. Porter '29 in the half mile. Neither of these...
...University crew has rowed two brief time trials in front of the Newell boathouse to test the comparative speed of the Pocock shell which it rowed in the triangular race, and the new Lutz boat. They rowed a little more than a third of a mile each time, first in the Pocock and then in the Lutz, and they rowed the distance about a second faster in the latter shell...
Upon only one count, can the present test of opinion go astray, namely, inattention. The cards are not incidental but central to the establishment of the dining hall. The pledges of sufficient men, say six or seven hundred, will bring it into being, in all probability, over the summer. Failure to receive the requisite number of pledges, on the other hand, must be taken as a student negative on the plan and will prevent all further progress until another year...