Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanover, N.H., October 18. The four backs and two ends of the Dartmouth football team will resemble hockey players more than gridiron specialists when the Green goes into action against Harvard Saturday, for those six men will wear shorts with knee pads and long stockings, instead of regular football breeches. The purpose is to free the movements of the backs and ends to make greater speed possible, and to identify the men eligible to receive forward passes. The Harvard game will be the first in which the new uniforms will be worn...
...owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron the eve of Yom Kippur, and, pious, would not approach his place of livelihood on the holy Day of Atonement when Jews may do no labor. ¶ In Brooklyn, also, Yom Kippur Eye, 14 scoundrels, instead of attending synagog services, diced for money. Indignant neighbors informed police, who arrested the dicers. In court Yom Kippur, the judge sentenced all 14 to attend schul (synagog...
...Jazz Singer. Two seasons ago Manhattan and other cities witnessed approvingly the theatrical tale of a Jewish boy who wanted to go on the stage instead of into his church. His orthodox old father fumed gently, having trained him for a cantor. But circumstance and the boy's yearning for the footlights made him in the end a singer of jazz for the world that lives at night. George Jessel, a jazz singer from revue and vaudeville, played the part and made his name as a straight actor. But in making the picture Mr. Jessel was passed over...
Coach John Kershaw has made several changes in the University line-up. Captain J. F. Carr '28 will start as center halfback instead of right halfback while W. D. Vogel '30 takes the place of H. C. Haskell '28 at outside right. N. R. Danielian '28 will resume his old place at inside right, left vacant by the shift of Vogel to outside right and Bernard Barnes '30, who has been pressing for a place on the team, will start at right halfback today. Durk Bodde '30 has been entered at inside left...
Widener Library Treasure Room has on exhibit a number of interesting historical objects, including a water-color drawing of Harvard College, done in 1794 by Jonathan Fisher, and showing Holden Chapel, and Hollis, Harvard, and Massachusetts Halls. A feature of this drawing is that the window panes, instead of being painted in black, are pricked with a pin, so that the back ground shows through and gives the impression of depth...