Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breach between the Crimson and the Tiger is still wide open as far as football is concerned with both sides still holding on to their principles. Princeton wants a November date on the Harvard schedule, forming a rotating schedule with Harvard and Yale, in fact, a revival of the Bit Three. Harvard, on the other hand, does not want to make any long term contracts with any other college except Yale, feeling that the Blue is the one natural rival of the Crimson...
Bariol replaced Captain Ellis at goal for Harvard at the start of the final period. There was no barrage of goals as at the start of the previous chapter put there was a good bit more of exciting hockey. The crowd livened up, too, and showered its cheers and jeers on Dewar, for what particular reason nobody knew...
...months there is little left that can be said about it. The mere fact that it has had such a long run should indicate that there is at least something good about it. In fact, a fifteen month run seems to assure one that there must be quite a bit of good about it, in it, and all through...
...makes one realize that Yoakum, Mississippi is still to be visited by her, but she gets across the idea that it is more pleasant to be bad in a speakeasy than good in East Orange, New Jersey with considerable amount of restrained passion. (It really only takes a bit of common sense to come to that conclusion.) The amiable old judge and Count Di Ruvo are also portrayed with a good deal of perfection...
...university works toward making him feel small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure of undergraduate opinion, which, finding him not only insignificant but at numerous points objectionable, sets...