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Only four of the players who opened the season last week will be in the lineup for the opening kick-off this afternoon. The biggest surprise in the opening team named by Coach Horween last night is the appearance of Putnam at quarter in place of the veteran Stafford. Another important change is the shift of Gamache from end to center in place of Parkinson, who held down that berth on team A until Thursday, when the erstwhile end was shifted back to the position he held two years ago. F. Clark and Simonds have drawn the tackle assignments, Captain...
Although the shift of Gamache to his old position in the center of the line is causing much speculation the shelving of Stafford for Putnam is the biggest surprise that Coach Horween has sprung during the last few-weeks. Stafford was considered virtually assured the quarterback position for this season, his play last year in Brown and Yale games being one of the high spots in the remarkable Crimson rejuvenation of the hectic 1926 gridiron season...
Finally from my own experience I can testify that Harvard and Glasgow have much the same problems in policy, that Harvard is in many wavs, nearer Oxford than is the biggest Scottish university and I believe this to be true of all the Scottish universities including St. Andrews...
Sixty white oxen drew this country's first steam mill across the continent, to Sutter. Shiploads of firearms, seeds, implements, nails, clothing rounded the Horn annually, for Sutter. The world's soundest banks were pleased to extend credit to America's biggest landlord, Johann August Sutter...
...Scopes trial in Tennessee provided the biggest and best newspaper story since the war. It kept the headlines for weeks and provoked an immense amount of discussion all over the country. Especially among scholars and scientists this episode aroused a fine display of indignation. It was looked upon as a throwback to mediaevalism, an attempt to stultify the convictions of men by due process of law. One would think, from the reaction in academic ciroles, that religious belief is the only field in which great bodies of our fellow citizens decline to be guided by science or by history...