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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were men of conspicuous ability, they were trained and ready to take their place in the world's life-two of them had definitely consecrated themselves to the high service of the Christian ministry-when suddenly they were called upon to lay aside their task of battling for righteousness either in France or here, where they were so badly needed. That men of such unusual promise and of such sterling worth should need to be sacrificed is baffling in the extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lest We Forget. | 12/2/1916 | See Source »

...either university the students who, like De Quincey, enter thinking of some obscure text of the "Parmenuides," must be rare. Scholars are consoling themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compulsory Greek Losing Foothold? | 12/1/1916 | See Source »

...back to Cambridge well beaten. On the other hand, we really do want the game to be a good one, both close and thrilling. The fact that odds are approximately even indicates that such will be the case. Although even odds give no feeling of comfort or security to either party, they unquestionably furnish a stimulating excitement to the nervous system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enter: Harvard. | 11/28/1916 | See Source »

...have both the great football contests on the same day was embarrassing, but although it was impossible to be at the Brush Stadium in this city and the Yale Bowl at New Haven at the same time, there was no complaint of diminished attendance at either. The crowds were enormous, and both games were inspiring, Yale won. After four successive and deplorable defeats, with not even a touchdown to brag about, Yale beat the confident Harvard team by a score of 6 to 3, upset all the betting calculations, and restored one of the universities' glories. Harvard can stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Football Games. | 11/27/1916 | See Source »

...present coaching system which, by the way, is beyond criticism as regards the making of football players, believes a comparatively easy contest before the Yale game as necessary for the successful development of the team, the date of the Brown game should be earlier in the football schedule. Either give Brown a date when Harvard's strongest team can oppose her, or run the ever-present chances of injuries to our best players and play the first-string men on the usual date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR SPORTSMANSHIP | 11/21/1916 | See Source »

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