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Consequently, it seems fairly clear that if Harvard is to win, it will have to pile up its winning margin in the first half--before the team tires...
...plays later, fullback Rick Hudner took a pitchout from quarterback Cabot and swept wide to score standing up. Jim Lowell kicked the point despite first penalized five yards for offside...
After the first World War, Seymour served on treaty and territory commissions dealing with Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia and headed the Austro-Hungarian division...
...father, Arthur Twining Hadley, was Yale's 13th president, between 1899 and 1920, and the first non-clerical president of the university. He is known as the "father of modern Yale...
Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...