Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven special trains rumbled into Washington. Out poured some 2,000 politicians from Middle America. From North Dakota came Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America...
...Bowdoin 0 Yale 10 Georgla 14 Yale 19 Brown 0 Yale 10 Army 6 Yale 19 Dartmouth 0 Yale 30 Maryland 6 Yale 14 Princeton 6 Total 143 Total 32 HARVARD Harvard 21 Vermont 3 Harvard 0 Purdue 16 Harvard 14 HolyCross 6 Harvard 6 Dartmouth 30 Harvard 26 Indiana 6 Harvard 0 Penn 24 Harvard 18 Brown 6 Total 85 Total...
...charge that the college undergraduate lacks initiative, made by Professor Oliphant, formerly of the University of Texas, lacks confirmation in view of the spirit exhibited by a dozen Indiana students last week-end. It seems that the students were imbued with the desire to witness the Harvard-Indiana football game, but lacking funds, they were forced to make the thousand-mile trip via foot, flivver, truck, or anything that came along headed in the general direction of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw the game...
...initiative was displayed in a field outside of the general run of the college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case, the students were brought into the limelight, more so, perhaps, than their actions merited, since similar exhibitions...
...Cambridge, Mass., burly westerners swaggered onto the gridiron; stumbled off beaten. Harvard 26, Indiana...