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...Crimson goes into the match deadlocked with the B. A. A. for the lead in the series. The latter team will face a stiff test this afternoon when it meets the Cambridge Squash Racquets Club, made up of recent Harvard graduates. The Cambridge team has already played and won two of its matches. If the University team wins all its matches this afternoon, it will have a decided advantage over the B. A. A. teams, which it will meet next week...
...annual K. of C. meet in Boston will be the first to test the University track men, who will run in most of the important meets of the Eastern indoor season...
Engineers have long ago proved theoretically and by individual test the superiority of the motor ship; but the old salts of the sea are still suspicious, as they were once of steam. "Sails," they said, "are safer than expanding steam." "Steam," they say, "is safer than exploding oil." Lord Kylsant, director of some 488 steamships and some 50 motor ships, said last week : "The experience of ship owners who have operated motor vessels is . . . contrary to expectation . . . that they are both reliable and dependable . . . cheaper to run . . . can carry larger cargoes. . . . Our motor ships have covered 7,500,000 miles...
...there is not relay meet with M. I. T. this year; the team will have its first test in the K. of C. meet on January 22, when the University and Freshman quartets will face Hole Cross...
...ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...