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This afternoon we shall expect Harvard men to support their team as they never did before; and we shall also expect the team to play football that will make it famous in Harvard history. If Yale can overcome such opposition, we shall still stand ready to shake hands...
...famous dedication of The Waste Land is "For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro," which even nonscholars of Italian can figure out to mean "the better craftsman." In this context, "craftsman" means "editor." It is well known that Eliot's great friend Poet Ezra Pound had been a severe editor who cajoled, bullied or advised Eliot to cut out half of what Pound described, with characteristically inaccurate flamboyance, "the longest poem in the English langwidge" (434 lines in the final version). A facsimile edition of Eliot's first draft, riddled with Pound's penciled comments, will be published...
...Already an anticolonialist, he helped form those revolutionary forces that would eventually drive his countrymen out of Indo-China and make Mao Tse-tung master of China. The Malraux of the middle period had much to recommend him too. As an almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force that flew against Franco's armies in the Spanish Civil War. Finally, if the author felt inclined to autumnal apologia, he could start by revealing himself...
Against Army early in the season, Harvard had run its flying wedge over the goal line from the two, killing the famous Army captain Gene Byrne, who was posthumously listed on Walter Camp's All-American team of 1909. The wedge play did win the game 9-0 for the Crimson, however...
...That famous Eli-Crimson contest in 1909 featured the old brand of hit-'em-while-they're-down football. The Houghton Machine that Harvard coach Percy Houghton fielded that year had already trounced eight teams before the decisive game with scores as high...