Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There has been much comment lately by graduates who are opposed to Mr. Sunday speaking at the University. They have based their contentions on the theory that Harvard is strictly democratic and that it is not in keeping for prominent men who are pledged to one cause and not to affairs in general to speak before undergraduates...
...young they are; how ridiculously, persistently, impossibly, incessantly young they are!" is the inevitable comment of the man or woman who goes back to a college function three or four years after commencement. For instance, last night at the Hasty Pudding Club, where the Harvard Dramatic Society gave its fall production, there were all the same sights usual just a year or two ago. There was the eagle-eyed mama, chaperoning her daughter; the wild company of the mild, harmless, and altogether blameless Harvard boy who sat on the other side of mamma and imagined he was seeing life...
...young they are," was the inevitable comment, "how young, and how remote--from all the pulsating, beautiful things, which make the heart to beat and the wrinkles to come. After all, how foolish a thing is a college. Lord a Mercy, was I ever--so remote--as these." Boston Record...
...putting the University in sixth place the Times makes the following comment; "Harvard's eleven failed to approach the standard shown by Crimson elevens in recent years. With the same Haughton system, plenty of promising material, and every indication of another high-class eleven, the Crimson failed against Tufts, Brown and Yale, and just squeezed through with a victory over Princeton. The Harvard line was the weak point in the structure. On other Harvard teams, the Haughton tactics of delayed passes and hidden ball plays got results because of a strong line...
...game in the Stadium last Saturday remains as the index of the type of football which the University and Princeton elevens may be expected to play against both Brown and Yale. Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, makes the following general comment on the game...