Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adie and Sayles, ends who started the Dartmouth game, are not slated to appear today. Sayles, whose work last Saturday was one of the bright spots from a Harvard standpoint, is receiving a merited rest. His place is being filled by Doherty, former halfback, who, like Sayles, was transformed into a wingman this fall. E. H. Bradford played a good game against Dartmouth and will hold down the right end position...
...Mind you," Mr. Hopper said, "I'm not complaining about this state of affairs. It like the theatre, and I'm just as fond of it today as I was 50 years ago. The glamor of the bright lights is still there...
...flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere. Graduates and alumni (they are not identical) storm and sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss...
...Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere...
...race, as it was one of elapsed time, did not impress as dramatic those spectators who had come without their stopwatches. The two bright, high-whining little planes faded away and reappeared four times, covering a triangular course and keeping approximately the same visible interval between them. The judges announced that Lieut. Bettis, with an average speed of 248.99 miles an hour, had beaten the dashing Lieut. Williams, breaking the world record for 200 kilometres (124 miles) over a closed course...