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...breadth maladjustments. The crew machine depends wholly on mass efficiency; individual superiority cannot make up what is lost by general mediocrity as is the case in other sports. And a strictly mediocre crew will do a better job than a mediocre crew in which one or two excellent oarsmen upset the efficiency. The result is that two methods have been recognized in the search for highest efficiency...
...almost a law that farmers must rise early, work late, receive little return for their labor. If the prediction of Dr. Ralph McKee of Columbia University, made last week before The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, comes true, this routine will be upset...
...Flood, ended with the World War. Cosmos III, begun in 1914, will end in 2874, when "The Kingdom of God" will fill the whole world. An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm- ''Nations will battle; the dead will be dung on the earth"-upset considerably the Bible Students' calculations, but the major tenets of their belief are as yet unshaken...
...matches played on Saturday the Harvard squash teams made a clean sweep of the week-end, although only one raised its position in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association series. The Freshman team C players staged a major upset by their 5 to 0 defeat of the Union Boat Club players. The oarsmen, who stood in third place and needed but one game to put them in the runner up position, have now no chance for the title. At the Medical School in Boston the 1933 team D players were victorious 3 to 2, while the University team C was credited...
Although it is fairly certain that the regulars on the wrestling team will take the majority of the finals in their respective classes, an upset or two is not at all unexpected by the coach. For example, there is Captain P. O. Johnson '33 of the Freshman forces who has entered both the 135 and 145-pound events. With a record of 100 per cent fall-victories during the season in the 135-pound position, it is safe to say that he will give his more experienced opponents plenty of competition...