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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty sweep of the mind of the sporting writer that lifts him to the heights of rhetoric and the ridiculous we cannot answer. But the mystery to the layman is not in the language, which is after all a first cousin to English, but in how the eye and brain of the reporter could identify the individual and yet follow the play, when Father and Brother, and Uncle Ralph failed miserably, and missed the touchdown because they were looking for Number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...mule owes its status as the cadet mascot to the tenacity and endurance it displays under fire. "If the mule kicks, he cannot pull; if he pulls, he cannot kick" was the catchword of artillerists during the war. The saying has been taken up by the West Pointers as being applicable to their disciplined four years of routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Deacon", Black Army Mule, Heads Stadium March of 1200 Cadets Today-Is Not Subject to Stage-fright Before Crowds | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...word about psychology may help to make Radcliffe's frustrated longing for things that cannot be a little less hard to bear. The word "complex" is bandied about the critique in astonishing fashion, but it proves a most unfortunate point. Complexes are only to be feared when they are repressed and the healthy airing of these matters is always to be encouraged. It is the people who never speak of so-and-so that probably have so-and-so working in their sub-conscious to a disgraceful extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS AND HUSBANDMEN | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...arrives. And he is less than the dust of the area. He is fed, clothed, inspected as to teeth and hoofs exactly as a horse would be. He must stand at attention for all officers. Upper classmen are all Mr. So-and-so to him. He cannot speak to them without being spoken to, he pulls his chin back and elevates his chest by orders, and gradually it dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition at West Point Places the Plebe Lower Socially Than the Dust He Grovels In | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Such a poll derives both interest and value from the circumstances of Election Day voting which completely effaces the separate identity of the University vote. To students themselves a tabulation of the political preferences of their associates cannot but be interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENTIAL POLL | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

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