Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Harvard has always had to do with ferocious animals. If it is not the growl of the Bull-dog, it is the roar of the Tiger; and today when the estimable puritanical gentleman goes down into the Palmer Stadium, he will be very wary, for he has felt the Tiger's claws. In his lair the Tiger is particularly wily. But John will watch his step and keep his finger on the trigger, for only twice in the past has be "done in" the Tiger in his new Stadium...
...wary and to keep a finger on the trigger. But, cautious and slow as he may be, John is a sturdy old gentleman, with all the determination of his ancestors who lived in the woods and treated with the Indians, and he has never quailed before the dog from New Haven or the tiger from the Princeton jungle. Today he knows that the sages are counting him out, are backing the tiger in the annual stalking match. But he remembers the advice of his even more remote ancestor and he is trusting in God and keeping his powder...
...think that Harvard ought to beat Princeton on Saturday because Princeton is reported to be just a little bit better," said C. C. Buell '23, captain of last year's football team. "I don't mind having Harvard called the under dog. For the past four years Harvard has gone into the Yale game as the underdog, and for the past four years Harvard has beaten Yale...
...favor of being the underdog--when the under dog wins...
...hint from the second of these principles, it is perhaps advisable to go directly to the poetry itself. The thing does look easy, delightfully easy. And then one remembers Stephen Leacock's account of his contribution to "Punch"; how he collected some beautiful phrases from the morning's news, Dog Man of Darfur, Sultan of Kowfat, and so on, and had a poetic masterpiece envisioned,--until he sat down to find rhymes for the phrases! After all it is enough, without adding further to the preponderance of prose over poetry, to say that the Poems are admirably selected, the kind...