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...optimistic estimate of Harvard's chances gives the Crimson three firsts, three seconds, and two other more remote places. In other words, if every University performer is at the peak of his form, Harvard will upset predictions and gain its indoor intercollegiate title...
...Rogers '26, the football halfback, and G. W. Burgess '25, the hockey wing, makes the outfield prospects brighter than those of any other department. Roger Doherty '26, who was ineligible last year, and G. E. Bennett '22, heavy hitter of last year's Freshman team promise to upset early predictions...
...confines of the University and the parietal regulations for years without really knowing the students, the professors or the well-worn grooves in which they both conduct their separate existences. Just when one begins to think he knows something about the place, along comes a trivial incident to upset his conceit and make him marvel anew as on the first day of his arrival in Cambridge...
From the first, Baker adopted a hard, offensive style calculated to upset Dixon's more conservative gime. Repeated smashes from the front of the court to an inch or two above the tin proved too difficult for Dixon to return, so that after the second game little doubt remained as to the outcome. From first to last Baker's was a brilliant game and showed great improvement over his former match with Dixon on January 10, in the Harvard-B. A. A. contest. On this accasion Dixon won by a very slight margin, the games standing...
...policy of a certain department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years ago. They are prone to make rather imposing mountains out of molehills; to orget that many of the criticisms by which they are disturbed offset each other: and to be upset by all sorts of trivial; personal annoyances. And while the graduates are in this state of mind, at is perhaps natural that the administration in its turn should be sometimes a little irritable, a little touchy and abrupt. It is primarily a case of nerves on both sides. A little diplomatic...