Word: dears
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This being so, it behooves all those to whom the name of Harvard is dear to rise in arms against the virus of decadence. In this spirit, therefore, the CRIMSON offers the following suggestions calculated to supplant present degeneracy with a new virility and all conquering mastery on the gridiron...
Rutgers College, now Rutgers University, was a ring-leader in the inauguration of intercollegiate football. Back in 1875 or thereabouts she, with Yale and Princeton, arranged the first intercollegiate football schedule. She is also the home of that deathless hymn, "I'd Die for Dear Old Rutgers!" We seem to see a connection...
Critics of intercollegiate football are fond of stressing the commercialism that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears...
Gifts. President Green presented the usual gifts to visiting delegates from abroad: watches to Arthur A. Purcell of Great Britain, Donald Dear of Canada and Roberto Haberman of Mexico; diamond stickpins to Ben Smith of Great Britain and Canuto Varges of Mexico; a diamond lavalliere to Mrs. Donald Dear...