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...resumption of athletics last Saturday showed by the result of three victories that Harvard teams still have the ability to "tame the Tiger," which has been such a favorite pastime in former years. It has not always been an easy task to defeat Princeton and often we have failed, but our success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...
...long since we have enjoyed the old, absorbing sport of taming the Tiger. A double chance is offered today and the entire student body has confidence that Captains Gross and Emmet will be able to "carry on" as in the past...
Judging by the records made by Princeton in taking three first places, a second, a third and a fourth at the Meadowbrook races 10 days ago, it seems more than probable that the University will meet with strong opposition from the Tiger track squad. Princeton has seven of last year's first-string men back this spring and among them such stars as C. R. Erdmann, who recently equalled the world's record by running the 45-yard high hurdles in six seconds flat, and S. P. Sinclaire, who broke the record by putting the 12-pound shot 51 feet...
...hope that we will have many more opportunities to see Mahan perform on the old hunting ground where he used to subdue the Bull-Dog and Tiger...
President Poincare has at last invited M. Clemenceau to form the new cabinet. From the beginning of the war the "Tiger of France" has resolutely abstained from co-operating with any political group, sitting aside and criticizing whatever government happened to be in power. His efforts have been destructive rather than constructive in aim and in result. But in spite of this inability to work with others, Clemenceau is a terrific driving power, a masterful organizer, and an extreme anti-German patriot. During his former stay in office as Prime Minister, he ruled France with an iron hand, cowing...