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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Make or Break" Against Cornell...
...Harvard has a longer row to hoe than either Princeton or Yale, and on Saturday next runs against a proposition which will either make or break her --Cornell. Harvard has been working hard on her defence since Haughton took charge, and the Ithacans will be certain to run up against a barrier on Saturday. Whether they will be able to smash or top it remains to be seen. It isn't likely the Crimson will produce anything elaborate on attack; it's difficult to see how she can. Cornell, judging from the Bucknell game, isn't as far along...
...practice game replete with ragged playing, the 1920 football team defeated the Technology freshmen 6 to 0 on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. The game was not on the regular 1920 schedule, but was arranged in order to break up the long three weeks' interval between the Andover and Exeter games...
Columbia has introduced a course in Japanese in its curriculum. Russian will soon be taught in Seattle, "the American gateway to Russia." Portuguese is the last to break into the circle of college-taught languages. The significance of this sudden influx of new tongues is that foreign languages are no longer considered cultural studies, but are taking their places among the practical arts...
...work for Princeton this week will consist in improving the backfield. In Saturday's game with Tufts, the Princeton line was unusually strong. Again and again, it would break through and stop the Tufts' backs before they got well started. But on the offense, Princeton failed. The tendency toward fumbling and inability to play hard football when a few yards would mean a touchdown were the main faults...