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...last gentle, kindly, soft-hearted words you will read about Harvard football in this column. Dave Egan, the Boston Record's amiable columnist will soon be finished with his friendly comments on the Boston Braves. He will then trot out his usual affection for the Harvard football eleven, and the Harvard Director of Athletics, whom he gracefully calls Bill "Blooding Heart" Bingham. So you can read Egan for your soft-soaping. This column will remain level-headed and realistic...
Take the Army game. Last fall, when Egan was in South Bend watching Army play Notre Dame, he wrote a column about the excellence of the Cadets, even though they were mashed up, and paused in the middle to say "I have just received the awful intelligence that Harvard will play Army next year." Let us not sink, along with Egan, into the depths of despair. Let us be unemotional, and remember that "to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . . this is alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory!" That's what Shelley said; translated...
More enthusiastic, if less flattering and abrupt than the Record (headquarters of the vituperative Colonel Egan, who, incidentally, has not been heard from yet), the Boston Globe and Herald-Tribune, and the New York Times followed their first punches Monday with roundhouse fistfulls of laurels Tuesday...
There is even more fuel for the fire to be found in the Boston press. Dave Egan '22 recently went on record with the reflection that only one Brave--southpaw Warren Spahn--could make the Sox first string...
Thomas H. Egan, Cambridge. Robert P. Gillis Cambridge. Myron N. Goldberg, Cambridge. Edward F. O'Hara, Jr., Cambridge. Roland F. Perkins, Cam- bridge. Harrison J. White, Cambridge