Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date of Saturday, May 21, still remains unfilled on the Harvard schedule, and present plans call for a team of alumni to oppose Coach Mitchell's aggregation on that afternoon. George Abbott '95, formerly chairman of the Baseball Advisory Committee, will have charge of gathering together an alumni team. Last year, after a bad start in the first inning, the Harvard graduates played the University nine practically to a standstill. An effort will be made by Abbott to enlist the services of Mahan to pitch for the alumni...
...into which the new message--grown a little stale in the East by now--will never penetrate. There are houses where a copy of the Mercury has never been seen; where mint juleps are still to be obtained, but where, on the other hand, the residents have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after Mr. Mencken has jostled past St. Peter and gone to inspect the boobs of Paradise...
...what a change!" he says. "A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us,--call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town--a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country...
...Harvard students, including alleged rioters and onlookers, who were arrested in the Square early Saturday morning when a police call for aid was turned in following a disturbance caused by the curiosity of an after theatre crowd in the arrest of two inebriates, will be arraigned in the Third District Court next Friday before Judge Robert Walcott. The charge against a majority of the men will be disturbance of the peace. The trial was postponed from Saturday until next Friday at the request of Dean Chester N. Greenough in order to give the authorities of the University an opportunity...
Patrolman Prior, coming to Murphy's aid, was jostled by the crowd, and his hat knocked off, Seeing all the signs of a riot in this act, Prior drew his gun, and holding the students at bay, backed to the signal box on the square, and turned in a call for assistance...