Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon edition of the Crimson, containing a telegraphic play-by-play account of the Harvard-Yale game...
Perhaps the fact that the Transcript does not appear until after all the morning papers have explained in great detail the features of the games and practices, that makes Mr. Carens a searcher after side-lights. It would be patently ridiculous for him to write a play-by-play account of the Saturday games, or even discuss the strategy of the rival elevens, on Monday afternoon after all the others papers had done this. Thus it is that Mr. Carnes is driven to seeking boudoir interviews with the Crimson athletes, the recording of quaint statistics, and the unearthing of other...
Incidentally, Mr. Ryan, besides knowing the King's English and Harvard's football, also knows his college spirit. Vide, for instance the following, taken from his account of the Penn game...
...Lamb has given us a colorful and stirring account of the career of a great conqueror, and if we may criticize the lack of documentation, we must remember the intrinsic difficulty of the subject and be thankful for a thoroughly readable account of what in other hands might be a very heavy subject...
...Satyricon is an account of the wanderings and fantastic adventures of a coaple of tramp students whose lecheries, boozing, brawling, and generally disorderly conduct along the high roads of Italy are graphically recounted in the current slang of the period. Their activities are all charmingly debased and come under the main heads of alcoholic, criminal and amourous, and include almost constant indulgence in those pursuits which secured for two cities of biblical fame a bad reputation and a pyrotechnical destruction...