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...Lawler 2L, an ex-Princeton football star, put Harvard in the lead at the outset of the contest when he scored a successful penalty kick for three points. Going into the second half with a score of three to three, the Crimson team showed superior physical trim, and in spite of a hard fight by Syracuse, tries by J. A. Potter '34, R. W. Straus '31, and Lawler, and a converted kick by W. C. Carter '31 gave Harvard the victory...
When the Corsair, trim, black yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, was returning from a cruise through the Caribbean, it put in at Miami, Fla. Photographer Ralph Willetts of the Miami News, who has recorded the features of innumerable Florida visitors, determined to lense-catch Mr. Morgan, most elusive of celebrities. He learned, after being chased away, that at 9 o'clock one morning Mr. Morgan's sister-in-law, Mrs. Stephen Van R. Crosby, would go ashore to entrain for the North. Photographer Willetts posted himself close to the Corsair. A fellow reporter placed himself nearby in evidence...
Except for actors who have to get in trim for the moment when Macbeth tells Macduff to lay on, fencing is not a practical accomplishment in the modern world; it is, however, an exercise requiring excellent physical condition. Last week in Manhattan the Salle d'Armes Vince team won the national three-weapon championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America principally because they were more youthful, in better condition than their experienced opponents. With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored...
Once Ogden Goelet's yacht, then a despatch boat for the U. S. Navy, then the presidential yacht Mayflower, a trim white ship lay tied up in Philadelphia last week being changed once more into a naval craft to serve in the Caribbean. Fire broke out in her stern. It raged forward, reached and sent rocketing some explosives, injured two fire-fighting seamen, got completely out of control. The firefighters had to withdraw and watch the withered Mayflower burn and sink until her bow rested on the bottom of the Delaware River...
...Navy. Trim and nautical, the report of Charles Francis Adams told the President: "The Secretary and Assistant Secretaries made such inspections of the fleet, its units and activities, and . . . of the establishment ashore as were compatible with administrative duties in Washington."† It re-outlined the decommissionings and changes to be pursued, as well as the shipbuilding, for construction of the London Treaty Navy (TIME, Sept...