Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Superiority in games," he argued, "is really not inherent in the British race." Then he went on to show that previous English supremacy in sport came because the British had invented and developed almost every game except baseball, and that other countries had paid England the compliment of imitation. He took the very wholesome view that England has conferred great benefits on the world through games. Of course it is annoying for a nation to be beaten at games developed by itself, but the philosophical Lord Balfour is ready to admit candidly that Englishmen are not fitted by nature...
Noble and Greenough, Huntington, Browne and Nichols, Cambridge Latin, and Rindge Technical are the institutions which have entered crews in the event for first four-oared crews today, while all of these schools except Huntington will be represented in the race for second fours...
...Union "Song Night" was well advertised, despite the fact that a special orchestra was provided by the management, despite the fact that Dr. Davison gave his special attention to the project, the experiment tried last night was decidedly not a success. All the proper ingredients were mixed apparently, except one which was wholly lacking: enthusiasm on the part of the undergraduates...
...members of the University tonight. The Union has supplied the opportunity and Dr. Davison the leadership. The latter feels that Harvard's songs are the equal of those of any college in the country, and that up to the present there has been no opportunity to sing them, except at the two football mass meetings where, he says, music degenerates into noise...
...most momentous crew triumph in five years, the first University eight swept the Charles in the feature race of the Quadrangular Regatta on Saturday, with a crippled Pennsylvania outfit, M. I. T. and Cornell finishing in order. Not since 1920 had a Crimson crew finished ahead of any eight except M. I. T., and until Saturday Cornell's record had remained unblemished by a Harvard defeat since...