Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before coming to Harvard, the 1927 football captain attended the Loomis Institute at Windsor, Connecticut, where his fame as a schoolboy athlete was unsurpassed in the state...
Little "Red" Riley, substitute Notre Dame quarterback, drove his team 73 yards down the field to score the first touchdown; a man named O'Boyle kicked the goal. These goals after touchdown often prove to be the hinges of football history. Southern California stormed and shunted ; Captain Cravath kicked, Morton Rear ran, and with four minutes to play the Pacific Trojans were five points ahead. Came a run, a plunge, a 20-yard forward pass, and eleven strong Irishmen got, by the width of a single point, their reward for traveling to Los Angeles. Score: Notre Dame, 13; Southern...
...also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly. For this Pirandello play is broad. Sea Captain Petella, a blustering fellow, who returns to his wife once every three months or so, absolutely refuses to do his natural duty as a husband. He wants no more children. Professor Paolina assumes the Captain's domestic responsibilities with embarrassing consequences. Mrs. Petella will have a child. How to make...
They float down the Ohio on a raft with a Captain and a Professor. They penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
After the picture, the 1928 captain will be elected. Those eligible for the position are Henry Chauncey '28 of Columbus, Ohio; Charles Augustus Pratt Jr. '28 of New Bedford; William Gordon Saltonstall '28 of Readville, and Daniel Simonds '28 of Fitchburg...