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This event caused Army to cancel the rest of their season, and for the next 18 years Harvard did not appear on the schedule. By the time the two teams played again in 1928, a change had come over West Point athletics. The change was due largely to General MacArthur's theory that wars are own on "the fields of friendly rivalry...
...year ago has come up with a set of worthy recommendations, but its five graduate student members frankly admit that they haven't accompished what they set out to do--find out "whether the Hygiene Department is giving the best possible service for the fee charged." This failure is due to the peculiar nature of University expense accounting; to discover what happens to the student's $15, the committee would have had to examine every invoice and voucher for a year of Hygiene Department operation, a task which even the U. S. Government auditors, who looked at the books when...
...coach also feels that the Crimson's basic difficulty Saturday was due to its own offensive ineptitude, rather than to Cornell's defense. Hence, the emphasis is on fundamentals again this week...
Nine days after their forced landing, the party, packing grouse which Scalise had boiled, decided to try to walk out of the bush. Stirling-Hamilton had a hand compass to keep them on their course, and they headed due south. It was slow going. They bogged down in the soggy muskeg. Farther on, in a tangle of fallen timber, they almost came to a dead stop, made only ten miles in two days...
...time has never been of the essence. Like Latinos everywhere, they are determinedly late for dinners and parties, but they also have their own private jibe at punctuality: in all of thin-aired La Paz there is no dependable timepiece. The city (almost due south of Bar Harbor, Me.) has only two public clocks: one, on the Banco Mercantil, seldom runs; the other, on the Congress Building, keeps time erratically because it has been shot up so often in Bolivia's revolutions. Radio programs often begin & end according to the announcer's wristwatch...