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...house plan must traverse many dreary leagues before reaching the security of Widener's shadow. It is only during the morning, when he is of necessity drawn to the Yard because of classes, that he would avail himself of the opportunities offered by the Poetry Room. If a half-hour with the poets prefaced by a fifteen minute much of the glamour is lost...
...predecessor of today's contest. The game was essentially rugby and the ball used was 30 inches in circumference and less pointed at the ends than the modern football. The 15 players on each side lacked the protection of the padding used in the present uniforms. Three half-hour periods were played and time out remained an innovation for the future. Harvard won this first contest by a score of four field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. Forty students accompanied the team to New Haven...
...predecessor of today's contest. The game was essentially rugby and the ball used was 30 inches in circumference and less pointed at the ends than the modern football. The 15 players on each side lacked the protection of the padding used in the present uniforms. Three half-hour periods were played and time out remained an innovation for the future. Harvard won this first contest by a score of four field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. Forty students accompanied the team to New Haven...
...three weeks in his effort to bring back to President Hoover the insular attitude toward independence, the wash of his plane's propeller, the dust kicked up by his horse or motor magnified itself into daily monsoons at Manila. The native House of Representatives began devoting a daily half-hour period to bombarding Secretary Hurley. Speaker Manuel Roxas, leader of the independence bloc, nearly beside himself with impatience at Secretary Hurley's failure to commit himself on what his three weeks on the islands had shown him, truculently declared that "if Mr. Hurley believes what we think...
There is nothing wrong with the first half of the course. Professor Walz has a charming manner of presentation, his half-hour lectures in German are delightful, and he possesses an intimate, if not scholarly knowledge of the subject. He knows Goethe and has a sincere admiration for him. He tries to convey to the class the spirit of Goethe's writings, to make the students feel the intensely human quality of them. What is more, he wants the class to appreciate it as German literature, to read it and think of it in German, and not to consider...