Word: brink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with only seven minutes more to play, the Crimson substitutes uncovered that type of last minute, irresistible attack for which Harvard teams are famous. With darkness settling on the field, a pass from Buell to Churchill netted a tieing score which snatched the University from the very brink of defeat and robbed the Bezdek machine of what three minutes earlier appeared a sure victory...
...matter of fact the student population of the present day does not concern itself enough with radical doings. With a large part of Europe in the hands of the extremists of socialism and parts of the rest of the world trembling (as the pessimists tell us) on the brink it would be indeed strange if Universities were not affected. Institutions of learning are supposedly the leaders of modern thought. If modern thought is tending toward radicalism, college men should certainly know what it is all about...
...blister on the heel, is considered ample satisfaction for the demands of honor. Indeed, to badly injure one's opponent is shocking bad taste, for it prevents his attending the drinking party which usually winds up these affairs. We thus have the example of a nation -- on the brink of economic and social disruption -- playing at Lords and Ladies until tea-time. They seem to have quite forgotten that when the game is over there will be no jam and cakes with which to satisfy their healthy appetites...
Side Horse.--Won by Brink (M. I. T.); second, K. Campbell '21 (H); third, L. H. Nickels...