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FLOTILLA UPSETS FLOAT NIGHT BUT TREE DAY IS UNMOLESTED

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Country to the report given by the Boton papers, the CRIMSON Flotilla played its part at Wellesley's Float Night on Friday very skillfully and artistically. The Harvard float depicted the amorous adventures of Venus (Wellesley) and Adonis (Harvard).

The impromptu navy, which transported a dozen canoes overland to Lake Waban, held the limelight for twenty minutes until the combination of rock-throwing from the shore and the disconcerting effect of a speeding motor launch in their midst forced the Harvardians to beat a hasty but dignified retreat.

Expecting a land blitzkrieg on the following day, Wellesley officials stationed large numbers of plainclothes men about the premises at the Tree Day ceremonies, but for naught.

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