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...world famed Gridiron festival in Washington, D. C., at which newsmen had fun with political bigwigs...
...William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
...football season, athletics have again been forcibly subordinated in the daily papers to the more important topics of current events. Once more Mr. Hoover and the stock market have received due prominence on the front page; and the gestures of the Fascistic are no longer overshadowed by startling gridiron predictions. On the other hand, this is a period of unwarranted speculation on the part of sports writers. To fill their depicted columns, they fabricate grotesque stories of judicious phenomena; pictures of superhuman undertakings receive the appropriate comment of. "Believe it or not." A variety of topics, which represent at best...
There is as yet, however, no better than a hint at the time when not every window in Walter Hastings will be lighted. One might become sentimental on the possibilities of Harvard-Yale Law School rivalry in many fields. One might visualize the joy of encounter on the touch-gridiron, the squash court, the five o'clock floor, besides' the promised meeting in marble halls for contest in oratory. Such is the flight of fancy. But one can hardly expect that so great a contradiction to the present tenets of the Law School will be allowed. Indeed, if one ponders...
...several reasons: in this contest was scored by Harvard its first touchdown against Yale in the Stadium; in this contest was tallied the largest score Harvard ever made against Yale; in this contest was established perhaps the highest individual score for one game ever made on an Eastern gridiron, captain E.W. Mahan '16 checking off unaided, 29 of Harvard's 41 points...