Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ANNAPOLIS, MD., Oct. 15--A spirit of hilarious confidence permeates Bancroft Hall Dormitory of the U. S. Naval Academy tonight on the eve of the Harvard encounter. The Midshipmen expect their team to win, and they expressed this belief by an unending series of cheers all during evening's mess...
Pope Leo XIII instituted October as the month of the Holy Rosary, recommending that it be recited publicly in all Catholic churches during the month. Last week, on the eve of the month, Pope Pius XI with the Rosary in his thoughts delivered himself of an encyclical, or circular letter to all his bishops, such as he regularly continues to compose despite his feebleness. As summarized in English in Vatican City, the encyclical praises the Rosary, declares: "It requires, indeed, a simple and pious mind, but precisely for this reason, it educates the Christian unto a spirit of humility...
...their protege, they buy off the mercenary dean with promises of a new gymnasium, exact promises of football careers for themselves and friend, continued employment for Coach O'Hara. Pendleton becomes the star back, winning games virtually singlehanded, only adverse scores being when the Ritzes play. On the eve of the Midwestern game, the rival coach discovers Pendleton had played football professionally, has him declared ineligible. Chief Indian-baiter Bob Hayner (Dick Baldwin) is suspected of informing on the star, but plays heads-up football, clears himself of suspicion after the Ritzes clinch the victory, and regains the favor...
...Bastille quarter of Paris; Freddie, another Englishman, an ex-Guardsman; Richter, a dapper German of mysterious antecedents; miscellaneous Poles, Italians. Equipment and uniforms were equally scanty; the men wore mostly overalls and windbreakers, had one antiquated Hotchkiss gun for the whole company to train on. (Later, on the eve of their first engagement, they wangled Lewis guns, had a day to learn the new mechanism before going into action.) Drill commands were in French, which only half the men understood. Food was determinedly, indigestibly Spanish...
Officials have observed the situation for some time. But realization has been slow in arriving that these children are bad because they have never had an athletic field or a football of their own. Eve was never more tempted in Eden than these on the outskirts of a grass plot they must not walk on. It isn't that the children deserve any attention, though of course they do. It is simply that Harvard both holds out the temptation and hides the whipping...