rs, Yale's 'varsity eight simply ran away from
Harvard in the tenth annual competition in Romance languages and
philology. Yale took the lead from the start, and at the end of fifteen
minutes was ahead by 16 points to 7.... This splendid victory is due in
part to the general superiority of the New Haven eight, but too much
credit cannot be given to little Howells, who steered a flawless
contest. The Blue made use of the short, snappy English style of
text-book, while Harvard pinned its faith to the more deliberate German
seminar system. After the contest captains for the following year were
elected. Yale chose Bridgman, who did splendid work on Corneille and
the poets of the Pleiade, while Harvard's choice fell on Butterworth,
probably the best intercollegiate expert on Cervantes. In the evening
all the contestants attended a performance of 'The Prince and the
Peach' at the Gaiety. It is reported that no less than nine out of the
sixteen men have received flattering offers to coach Romance language
teams in the leading Western universities."

_From the "Daily Princetonian" of February 13, 1933:_

"Princeton won the intercollegiate championship yesterday with 63
points to Harvard's 37, Yale's 18, and 7 each for Brown, Williams, and
Pennsylvania. Princeton won by her brilliant work in the classics and
biology. Firsts were made by Bentley, who did the 220 lines of Homer in
29-3/5 minutes, scanned 100 Alcaics from Horace in 62 seconds flat, and
hurdled over nine doubtful readings and seven lacunae in the text of
Aristotle's 'Poetics' in 17-1/2 minutes. Two firsts went to Ramsdell,
who made only two errors in Protective Colouration and one error in
explaining the mutations of the Evening Primrose."

_From the editorial columns of the New York "Evening Post" for July 7,
1933, and October 11, 1938:_

(1) "Scholastic competitions have ceased to be the means to an end and
have become an end in themselves. The passion to win has swept away
every other consideration. Professionalism has laid its tainted hand on
the sports of our college youth. High-priced professors from the
University of Leipzig and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes are engaged to
drill our teams to victory. Men who should have long ago taken their
Ph.D. have been known deliberately to flunk examinations so as to be
eligible for the 'varsity