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...best in recent years. For the first time in several seasons, the Crimson organization is strong and well-balanced in every event; capable of giving the Elis a hard battle. Every man realizes the importance of this meet for the future of Harvard track and, is determined to upset the carefully worked out predictions of the track critics. Whether we win or lose, the University recognizes and appreciates the work of every man on the squad. The spirit of fight, which now characterizes the Crimson team, marks the beginning of another era in Harvard track history...
...three crews which will leave tomorrow night for Princeton for the triangular race with Annapolis and Princeton on Lake Carnegie are fast being brought to top-notch form. Practice for the past week has been greatly upset by the lack of good rowing conditions on the Basin, a fact which has kept the coaches from carrying out the plans which they had made. Long paddles up-river with short, hard spurts at a high stroke, have, however, enabled the coaches to correct faults in from which might not have been defected in the usual practice...
...present plans mature, the 1924 Red Book will be placed on sale Saturday, May 28. The stumbling block which may upset this plan is the threatened strike of the Union printers and binders, who have signified their intention of stopping work on May 1 as a protest against the "Open Shop" policy. No definite action, however, will be taken by the printers and binders of Boston and vicinity till the result of a test strike now going on in Rochester, N. Y. is determined...
...Gompers' commentary is some what upset by the finding of fact by the Naval Consulting Board, which examined the capacity of American establishments to manufacture munitions, that of 18,654 plans, substantially 10 percent were union, and that of 1700 odd plants engaged in the fundamental manufactures, substantially 4 percent were union Nor is it irrelevant to call attention at this point to the fact that one of the first acts of the British Ministry, at the out-break of the War, was to negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked...
...eighties and nineties they passed rules requiring pushing duels between opposing linesmen to determine whether the offence could provide a human slide on which to project the man with the ball for 1 and 67-100 yards on each down; or whether on the other hand the defence could upset this human slide and turn it into a human wall against which the alleged runner would be hurled in vain by his team-mates. The result of the plays would have been exactly the same if the runner was on wheels...