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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Moreover, Princeton invariably plays her best game on her own ground; and invariably makes tremendous advances in the week prior to the Harvard game. There is no question but the the University eleven knows as much football as the Tiger team, and physically is approximately her equal. A few breaks for or against either team may decide the issue. Consequently the close student of football is looking for a very close game, while the uninitiated are making wild predictions as to the result...
While Brown has been buffeted and bruised by four of the strongest elevens of the season, Yale, with the possible exception of Boston College, has met no formidable opponent. As a result the strength of the Yale team is at best problematical. Defenders of the Yale football attack and of the new coaching system of which Dr. Sharpe is the head, are unwilling to make any positive assertions and admit that the strength of the eleven cannot be estimated until the clash with Brown. Either the coaches are holding back some more effective scoring plays than they have disclosed...
...Veterans of the Marne", and in "The Family With Whom I Lived in Soissons", it is the vivid rendering of types,--be they Yanks, Zouaves, Moroccans, Poilus or peasants,--which gives the book charm and significance. It is a high-hearted book, both verse and pictures making the best of a bad business...
...scope of this plan is best shown by a quotation from the Yale Alumni Weekly...
Second in the list comes an exhibition of early American portraits belonging to the University, while the third consists of the best of the works of art now permanently lodged in the Museum itself. Drawn from the most artistic examples of early American portraiture contained in the various buildings and departments of the University, the second exhibition will be chosen particularly from the Memorial and University Hall collections...