Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Truck" Miller, "Honeyboy" Finnegan, "Newsboy" Brown, "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, Fielding "Hurry-Up Yost, "Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...
...services of a faithful coach to the cause of Harvard Athletics were remembered in the action of the H. A. A. last night when Coach Edward L. Farrell was honored. But there is in that inscription more than mere words. Admiration and honor both find expression in the simple sentence engraved on the medal...
...more than the desire to serve the University that prompted "Eddie" Farrell to battle with death while crossing the Atlantic with the stricken trainer, who had for forty years served the cause of sport and sportsmanship so well. There was in that unselfish action of his the spirit that inspires men to things of which they knew not they were capable. And in the recognition of that spirit there is recognition also of that harmony of body, athletics, and the men who teach its laws...
...headline of a Boston paper last Thursday led a story that deliberately over-emphasized one incident of the initiations until there appeared to be a race-riot seething under the surface at Harvard Square. The bold-face story on "Kindergarten Treatment" in another paper yesterday related a mild disciplinary action such as has often occurred in English 2, and is utterly without importance outside of the classroom. Thus far the freedom of the instructor to conduct his classes has been recognized by University Hall, and there is no reason for the world at large to be concerned with that matter...
...action of the play takes place in the 70's and there is opportunity for occasional satirical sallies against the Victorian morals of the day. Much of the humor is supplied by the skillful way in which Susan Blake handles the role of May van der Luyden. Among the male parts, John Marston as Newland Archer and Arnold Korff as Julius Beaufort perform creditably...