Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...isolation in which the modern Western world has left the more ancient culture of the East is explicable on several grounds. The interior of China and Tibet is protected by natural barriers of desert and mountain and even at the present day portions of it are forbidden to foreigners. Even in those regions where Westerners have penetrated, the inhabitants are not unnaturally hostile to the strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage...
...anticipation of Yale's off-tackle play through the left side of its opponent's line. So well did he carry out the task of stopping this play in the Yale game that he was named by the Associated Press as one of the outstanding tackles in the East...
...John Hicks house in your issue of December 3. The first is obviously a misprint of April 18 instead of April 19; the second's that the British troops on their way out to Lexington in the dawn of that day were landed near the present Court buildings in East Cambridge, or as it was then known at Lechmere's Point and crossing on the narrow causeway over what was then the wide tidal estuary of Miller's river made their way to Union Square, Somerville, whence they proceeded by what is now Beacon Street, Somerville, reached Massachusetts Avenue...
...Pickard '29 and R. H. O'Connel '30 were mentioned in a select group of ends of the East, and J. E. Barrett '30 and F. A. Clark '29 were included among the tackles. J. N. Trainer '31 and W. D. Ticknor '31, guards, completed the roster of Crimson linemen in the list...
Harvard, standing always in the nor-east wind of New England, has been a hockey college since the inauguration of the sport in the circles of intercollegiate athletics. Thirty years ago a group of Harvard students, with F. S. Elliot of the Law School and J. W. Dunlop '97 at their head, got out in the icy afternoons and froze their toes and their noses and their ears so that Harvard's hockey team today could work out in the finest indoor ice arena in New England...