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Special Halloween forces will be mobilized tonight by University and Cambridge Police as they prepare to meet the annual wave of petty law-breaking. In the Yard, Police Chief Alvin Randall's special squad will patrol the entrances and keep the usual weather eye on Old Jawn...
...alarming traits of any sort marked John Harvard's character, John O. Gates '51 assured the College yesterday when he disclosed that samples of Jawn's signature reveal "an objective and dispassionate personality, modest and direct, with plenty of good taste...
Gates has already composed one paper on John Harvard, with another on the fire. He claims research for his theme turned up evidence that Shakespeare served as Jawn's baby sitter, "often dandling him on his knees...
...grads, like old grads everywhere, had no use for a loser-and their memories were short. In 1939, Homer had been a hero at A. & M. He had a wonder team that year, starring "Jarrin' Jawn" Kimbrough, which was voted the nation's best. In five years, his Aggies had played in four Bowl games. Box office was good at the campus stadium. Last year, when old grads began yelling for his scalp, Homer, who has coached at Texas A. & M. for 14 years, calmly told them to put up or shut up; his $10,000-a-year...
Harvard had taken up football three years after Rutgers, but during the Eighties old Jawn was suffering from an inferiority complex. In 1886, for example, although he spanked Tufts 82-0 and Dartmouth 70-0, there was nothing he could do with Eli, who won to the tune of 29-4. In fact, the Crimson did not take one game from Yale during the Eighties, a time when the famous, and partly fictitious, "Harvard indifference" was born. There may have been a connection...