Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has long been a feeling that the departments of Economics, Government, and History in order to fulfill completely their purpose should offer at least one course in current events and current problems. Empire, decay, and revolution, the clash of arms, the fall of thrones, are apt to assume the color of recollection only, a reminiscent haze of things past, untouched by any parallel with these soberer days. To view the past through the small end of the telescope, through the present, would be a refreshing aid in the drive for historical proportion...
...years, has turned out this season as the greatest running back on the team. An 84-yard run-back of the opening kick-off in the Holy Cross game literally gave the contest to the Big Green, while if he hadn't been caught from behind in the Columbia clash after a 68-yard sprint, that fracas might have ended in a tie. In the epic battle with Yale last Saturday this great ground-gainer piled up more yards than any other back in the game, not excluding Albie Booth, and pulled off some remarkably spectacular runs. Dartmouth's other...
...psychological and physical viewpoint, should key them up to a far better pitch than their traditional rivals. The Yale Daily News seems to thoroughly share in this sentiment, as they are credited with this bold-hearted assertion, in reference to the unemployment collection slated for the epic Harvard-Yale clash: "The spectators will give freely only if their favorite team is winning, so if the managers are wise the Crimson side of the Stadium will be canvassed first before it gets too discouraged." --BY TIME...
Speaking from the studios of the National Broadcasting Company in New York, the University debaters will clash with the Oxonians in the London studios of the British company. The speeches will be conveyed across the Atlantic in each direction by short wave transmission and then rebroadcast in both countries. Assurances are forth-coming from the N.B.C. officials that, although trans-oceanic radio programs are still in their infancy, only the most severe electrical disturbances can interfere with satisfactory reception...
...House Plan has brought together men from different fields, but casual conversation, with its tendency to stay on the surface, does not produce the intellectual clash, and consequent examination of fundamentals, which ought to make the Houses vital intellectual influences as well as superior eating clubs. The plan for House forums is an ideal one; its realization would be difficult. But the prize is worth all the effort which can go toward attaining...