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...Yale wrestling team upset predictions Saturday night by defeating the University wrestlers, 16 to 9. in the lighter classes the Crimson men had a distinct advantage over their Blue rivals and were leading 9 to 3, when the 158-pound bout was reached. In this, Miller of Yale took a fall from McSweeney of Harvard in three minutes, 10 seconds, thus putting the two teams on ever terms. Yale then won the next two matches. Captain Russell defeating Hayne in the 175-pound class, and Allen winning from Captain C.H. Bradford by decision. Russell, who is the intercollegiate champion...
...Egyptian headdress is the centre of fright. It was stolen from an Egyptian tomb and has ended up in a plain English country house, which is very properly upset by long, naked arms reaching from behind portières. It is reliably reported that this play was written in all seriousness and in rehearsal evinced a cranky tendency to sound funny at the wrong moment. Therefore it was made funny in a few more spots and blandly billed as burlesque...
...University entries have steadily become more dangerous in the indoor competition. Two years ago the Crimson athletes surprised their supporters by carrying off 5 1-9 points to finish eleventh in a field of 22 universities and colleges. Last year Coach Farrell's runners again furnished the outstanding upset of the meet by nosing the strong Pennsylvania squad out of second place and finishing behind the Georgetown winners with 24 1-4 points Tonight with the most powerful array of point winners in five years Captain Tibbetts' men are ranked on even terms with the defending champions, and with Yale...
ARICIE BRUN-Emile Henriot- Viking Press ($2). A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch. A young traveling man, Julien Brun, has the good fortune to pull him out. Thus, in 1817, begins a human little pageant of French bourgeoisie that continues for four generations, to the outbreak of war in 1914. For of course young Brun marries the mercer's daughter and lives, though not ever after or in unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter...
...Vagabond. The student Vagabonds are with us but their excuse for existence is quite different. We gasp when we think of the utter hopelessness of attempting at Cornell to stimulate visiting by students to courses in which they were not regularly enrolled. The professor's attendance record might be upset! --The Cornell...