Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanover, N. H., October 21, 1925.--At a monster rally tonight several hundred Dartmouth students gathered to cheer the big Green eleven that leaves tomorrow for Cambridge. Almost all the students follow the team on Friday hoping to see Dartmouth's third consecutive victory over the Crimson...
...reviewing the book, Mr. Pennypacker says. "Older men whose hearts are young and memories keen and younger men whose blood is hot and spirits high, should read this book; but especially are its pages commended to anxious parents and college professors who are earnestly seeking to follow where the light of duty leads and who sincerely dread best interest in play and recreation smother and stifle the intellectual life...
...three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing the ball streak far enough from the plate to bring in Harris and Bluege. Pittsburgh also came up to bat in its regular turn, but Walter Johnson was pitching. In 1913 he could pitch a ball so fast that the eye could not follow it. Twelve years have done his arm small harm; nor could nine innings. He struck out ten men, allowed only five hits. Score: Washington 4, Pittsburgh...
Second Game began with the solemn memorial exercises for Christy Mathewson (see below). A heavy mist made it hard to follow the ball. In the sixth inning Aldridge (Pittsburgh) hit boyish-faced Bluege behind the ear with a pitched ball. Spectators moaned. Having just commemorated one death, they feared they had witnessed another. Bluege revived, walked off the field. Moist-handed Pitcher Coveleskie, the Polish Spitballer (Washington), did well until the eighth inning when with the score tied, Kiki Cuyler (Pittsburgh) knocked a home run into the convenient right-field fence. Washington retaliated by filling the bases with none...
...reason in religion is a fine thing, Dr. Straton pointed out, but beyond a certain point reason cannot go. "We are finite beings in an Infinity, and our finite minds cannot grasp the Infinite. We follow Reason as far as she goes, and from that point on Faith must take her place. If we fall in Faith, therefore, we do not broaden our lives, but narrow them...