Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Edward William Mahan '16, of Natick, captain of the University football team, is playing in the backfield of the University eleven for the third successive season. Last year and the year before he played right halfback, while this season he has been moved to fullback. His brilliant open-field work, combined with exceptional ability in both drop-kicking and punting, has earned him a position on practically every All-American eleven that has been selected during the past two seasons...
...second game on the schedule was with Dean Academy, at Franklin, on October 16. No brilliant playing was shown by either side, and the fumbling of both teams was conspicuous. The result was a scoreless...
...ever, and with a record of having tied last year's championship eleven, next came to Cambridge and after the test at the Stadium went back to Pennsylvania with a 13 to 0 defeat. Although the Harvard line was inferior, and the interference still noticeably weak, Captain Mahan's brilliant play and Parson's keen following of the ball gave the University two touchdowns, which proved decisive. In this game there appeared for the first time an embryonic power in the University's attack, ragged but great, for the second score was the direct result of an impressive drive down...
...most brilliant French opera, and, even in Germany, the most popular of all operas, Bizet's "Carmen," was presented Tuesday night to a small but responsive audience by the Boston Opera Company in conjunction with the Pavlowa Ballet Russe. The gorgeous wealth of melody and the exquisite sensuous indulgence, to which the work owes its universal appreciation, taken together with its tragic climaxes, make "Carmen" extremely difficult to produce. Although the performance was uneven and disheartening at first, it improved immensely as the evening progressed, and the work may be said to have been on the whole extremely creditable...
...efficiency the distinction of sole charge of the transport of wounded in two important sectors of the line. One American section as a whole and nearly a score of American drivers have won the coveted decoration--the Croix de Guerre--which France gives for courageous and brilliant service. During its existence of fourteen months the field service of the Ambulance has carried more than 125,000 wounded, and its growing capacity and efficiency will soon have doubled the number...