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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with obscene fingers their boy-favorites--gloating sadistically, in their amphitheatres and circuses, over the butchery of unhappy gladiators and starved wild animals. They are fat heavy-jowled men with cruel eyes. To make the picture perfect all they need is big cigars.," So much for the men who built one of the largest empires in the world, certainly the empire whose institutions had the most lasting historical influences...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: Caesar's Rome -- Ibanez' Madrid | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard has a chance, a narrow, fighting chance. Yale's offensive strength is directed mainly through its opponent's tackles and guards. An alert Crimson line can stop this style of play to a great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight line football. Dartmouth ran wild around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHTING HARVARD LINE CAN STOP ELIS | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard readers. As coach of the Princeton football team, he has written a book that will make interesting reading for a couple of hours. "Football: Today and Tomorrow" is primarily for the football student and yet it will interest the ordinary spectator who wonders how a football machine is built. Vividly and simply. Roper writes of the most important phases of football life, gives sounder advice to coaches of football teams, and intermingles his advice and diagnosis with many anecdotes which are bound to attract the average reader. The book is evidently written to justify "non-scouting" agreements...

Author: By S.de J.o., | Title: FOOTBALL: TODAY AND TOMORROW By William W. Roper. Duffield and Co., New York, 1927. $2.50 | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...property along Derby Avenue. The new baseball stands containing 6,000 covered seats and 6,000 bleacher seats will be ready for the first baseball game next spring. These new stands are symmetrical and fire proof and will be a great improvement over the old wooden stands which were built in a very irregular fashion. The new stands will provide 1453 more covered seats than were available in the old stand. The varsity baseball diamond and field which has been considered one of the best baseball playing fields in the country has been preserved and has not been disturbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Field, Scene of Wide Construction Program, is Expecting Brilliant Future | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cripple | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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