Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomore, Junior, and Senior class teams, one of which will play each of the three first periods. The performance of the class teams will be closely watched and compared, and at the end of the third period Coach Knox will pick the team that has given in the best showing. This outfit will play out the balance of the game against the seconds...
...found him more brilliant than ever. Injuries last fall, however, prevented him from showing his stuff. The galloping Dartmouth back, also known in sporting circles as "Special Delivery" Marsters, seems to have hit his regular stride again this year. He can run, kick, and pass with the country's best. His hurdling experience has done him much good as a ball carrier and no team is safe when he's on the field. No matter where he has the ball, there is always the feeling that he may romp for a touchdown on the next play. Hewitt...
Elsewhere in today's CRIMSON there is a news story on the pross box in the Stadium, which is now virtually completed. It is one of the best, if not the best, accommodations for the members of the fourth estate now in existence among eastern colleges. It is certainly a definite proof of the hospitality the H. A. A. wishes to extend to the press, and as such is very genuinely appreciated by all those poor souls who had to write their stories in the rain, darkness, cold, or whatever sort of unfavorable condition prevailed, before the erection...
There is of course a danger that the priority of choice naturally given to the first two Houses may result in a monopoly of the best tutors by them. Coupled with the better physical equipment which these units will enjoy over those which may later be made by the adaptation of old buildings this priority may result in the top-heavy popularity of these Houses. The dangers of this situation are admittedly not pertinent to the present, but a proper recognition of their possibility should dictate that particular care be expended in building up the ranks of the non-House...
...used to be; she desires to serve in educational matters as a truly national university. To that end, she in 1925 frankly undertook to attract more promising material from the South and West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys who rank in the top one-seventh of the graduating class of a regularly organized and affiliated high school. This new ruling and this open-handed...