Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University--"Why Leave Home" with Sue Carol and "She Goes...
...recall with a good deal of pleasure the football games during my cadet days, between Harvard and West Point. In those days Harvard was always the visiting team, since the cadet team and the Corps left their home grounds only for the annual struggle with the Navy. We were always sure of a clean, sportsman-like contest, and the games with Harvard were close enough to be intensely exciting, but with the edge usually, I must confess, on the side of the Crimson...
...remember the hops, the big holiday dinners, the eating "at ease", the carefree feeling that creeps over one, the heavy boxes from home, the Christmas tree in the mess hall, and other things. But, I certainly cannot forget the terrible silence at the first meal to which the other three classes returned. That ominous silence meant that there were five more months till Graduation...
...reckon Ah'm different that a way...Ah just love to watch fo'ward kicks, an field passes 'n' things...Oh is that wheah the Ahmy is sittin'?'...Sho' nuf'?...Ah'm so excited...Ah love the Ahmy...! When Ah was a little kid no biggah than that down home in Gawgia. Ah simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons, and stripes, and an H. Sebastian Gawd sorta air...Ah reckon that's why Ah fell so hard down at the Point...Did Ah fall?...Boy, the lines they shoot down theah would...
...Second University Soccer team will open its saeson today when it opposes the M. I. T. team in an informal scrimmage in the latter's home field...