Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With five letter men to form a nucleus besides the material from last year's winning Freshman team, and with more than the usual number of experienced players in the 1925 class, prospects of a successful season appear bright both for the University and the yearling tennis teams...
Winning every bout the Yale '25 wrestling team completely outclassed the yearling mat-men by the score of 29-0 at the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday. The visitors showed a decided superiority in every respect, scoring four falls and three time decisions. The only bright spot of the meet for the Crimson was the showing of Murray Campbell against Captain Lovejoy of Yale. The Eli captain required two three-minute overtime periods to win a time decision of 58 seconds...
Another suggestion I should like to make concerns the reason why laboring men show such adaptability to new methods of striking; of course, this is but a suggestion. The greatest reason is perhaps, the number of bright lads in the country who, as wee tots of seventeen, astonish their parents by anticipating English A; then breeze through college, dashing off keen editorials in which they use such big words as "Syndicalism", "exploitation", and "Johannesburg"; and finally fare forth in the world to enlighten the public through the editorial columns of your "New York Timeses", your "Chicago Tribunes", and your "Boston...
...whether or no we be of Harvard's sons. It is a tale of adventure, a tale of heroism, suffering, of death, dingy, in unlit corners or flaming gorgeously in battle. It is a story of human beings who were tested by the fires, but more, it tells of bright youth winning to brief glorious achievement and of riper age, which, having labored well, finds its highest accomplishment in dying for a cause believed-in. We have not forgotten. Those in the world who truly felt deeply in wartime, whose innermost beings were stirred, did gain something from the years...
...reads the provisions of the Disarmament treaty--at last an accomplished fact. At no time since the signing of the Armistice has such a glow of untrammeled satisfaction pervaded the hearts of thinking men and women. At no time has the prospect of future peace seemed so bright as today when the ten-year naval holiday has begun. It is not often that the headlines carry such a real and lasting thrill. As Dr. McGilroy observed, there is nothing new we can say, yet who can keep silent...