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Women, the war, athletics, and personalities comprise the range of subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks whose sole aim is to fill a gap in the conversation. When the talk wanders to the war, someone says "I hope those damned ------ get licked," and the subject is closed. Even on athletics where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blasphemies on Yale are the main element. Interspersing everything are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole...
...Middendorf '16, number 6, was out of the boat for some time last week on account of boils, but is now in place again. The men may show great form and stamina in the regatta on Friday, but they are at present more or less of an unknown quantity.Cox., McLane; Stroke, Morse; 7, Wilman; 6, Meyer; 5, Sturtevant (captain); 4, Sheldon; 3 Low; 2, Bennitt; bow, Coe. THE YALE FIRST CREW PRACTISING ON THE THAMES...
...second in its third game of the season on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Although the second team has lost its previous games by close scores it has made a good showing and should put up a strong game against the Tufts second whose ability is unknown...
...while Columbia has not only attained the front rank, but got so far ahead of it that there seems almost to be a vacancy in the second place. Of the universities which come next, California now impressive with 8,180 students, and Chicago with its 7,131, were almost unknown in the palmy days of the "Big Four." But this change in order does not argue decadence by any means, in those universities which formerly led. They have had uninterrupted prosperity, as a rule, and an increase of their own. Numbers may indicate prosperity, but there is a prosperity more...
Analysis shows that in each team the line is inferior to the backfield. Consequently as much will depend on the unknown ability of the forward defences to withstand the attacks of the truly brilliant backfields, as will depend on the known strength of these backfields. Perhaps slightly the superior in the line, and of equal power in the backfield, the University team will rely for supremacy to a great extent on the drop-kicking ability of Mahan