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Four Crimson grapplers went to the mat Saturday afternoon when the Eli wrestling team defeated the University, 16 to 9. The University won three of the seven bouts on decisions. The feature of the meet was the performance of T. L. Parsonnet '22, who upset all predictions by defeating Grey, the Yale captain, in a hard-fought match of nine minutes. B. B. Corson Occ., who was recently elected captain of the wrestling team, won his bout from Karelitz by a pretty scissors hold...
Predictions were upset yesterday afternoon when the strong Junior basketball team went down to defeat before the aggressive 1920 quintet to the tune of 27-23. J. H. Orr '20, playing at centre, and A. T. Hill were the mainstays of the winning team, between them caging six field baskets. H. W. Holt Unc. and J. D. Chase played a brilliant game for the Juniors with seven goals from the field...
...recent address a professor of the University gave an explanation of Harvard's inaction which is worthy of thoughtful consideration. He said that the reason there had been no abrupt upset here after the war is that Harvard has always progressed at a smooth rather than a jerky rate. Ever on the lookout and with committees always investigating and suggesting improvements, the University has grown slowly but continuously. In this way Harvard, under President Eliot, faced the period of readjustment after the Civil War. The growth of the graduate schools, the liberalizing of the requirements for the degree...
...seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as when a man says that he has squared the circle, or that you do not care whole-heartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas--that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted...
...afternoon to wipe out the sting of early season defeats and carry back to the elmbowered streets of New Haven the scalp of John Harvard. Anyone who knows the Bulldog of old knows that he is a fighter; that the words of the prophets are likely to be violently upset, and that the game is not won till the final shrill blast of the whistle...