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...life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment as such, was our horrid suspicion that Mr. Frank Craven wrote the play more for the enjoyment of the large crowd that so obviously did enjoy it, than for any purpose of poking fun at the way we moderns live our lives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/8/1925 | See Source »

...flaw in the reasoning from the Harvard point of view is that the record of the visiting outfit seems distinctly ominous. They have bowed to only two teams this year, twice to Syracuse, and once by a two-point margin to Cornell, winning from the latter in the next game by the same margin. Six wins comprise the rest of the Rochester record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VISITING FIVE MAY UPSET PREDICTIONS | 2/20/1925 | See Source »

...which quarterback Slagle scored. The entire Tiger backfield did much as it pleased with the light Amherst line. One of the features of the game to the spectators was the efficacy of Princeton's new system of silent signals. Captain Stout gave them from his wing position. The chief flaw in them seemed to be that they encouraged offside play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT HARVARD'S FUTURE GRIDIRON OPPONENTS DID SATURDAY | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...stood, and will stand, for the fullest academic freedom. Since the outbreak of the war and the foment of opinions that it caused, few institutions of learning have had so clear a record in maintaining this principle, and none could have a clearer one for it has been without flaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell Counters Bertrand Russell's Charges | 4/12/1924 | See Source »

...Twice before I have come home from war, back to Michigan, back to friendship, back to confidence and kindness. Now for the third time I come from war, made hateful by poisoned gas and base stratagems, from defeat without shame to welcome without flaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Welcome, Ned! | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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