Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touch football crown will be contested for this afternoon by the Smith Hall team and Sigma Alpha Mu contingent. The former won the interdormitory series, the latter the interfraternity series. Both teams were slated to meet Friday, when the bad weather, the indisposal of some of the members, and the absence of others, made a postponement to this afternoon necessary. Both team are ready today, however, to stake their claims to the intramural crown on a single game at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Medals will be presented to all members of the winning team...
Whether the decline of the old Yale spirit or the superiority of the Harvard lateral pass play was chiefly responsible for the latter's victory, it is impossible to say. The score was 17-o, with honors to Harvard's Guarnaccia & French...
...year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe for 20 years. On the Berengaria, he had managed a glee club as well as his smuggling racket; when accused of the latter he broke down and wept piteously, asserting that he had received $100 for each packet and had carried only twelve in the last two years. Overjoyed, the customs men hauled him off to prison...
...influence of Harvard in the latter half of the seventeenth century is attested by what happened in 1665 when one Marmaduke Johnson sought to set up a rival press. After he had transported from England a full printing equipment, seeking to establish a commercial printing establishment, the General Court at once ordered that there were to be no printing presses in Massachusetts in any town but Cambridge. The Harvard press, of course, was not a commercial enterprise...
...three feints are made at passing the ball to other players before it finally leaves Shober's hands. And when he does pass it to another back the latter promptly passes it to somebody else. It becomes exceedingly complicated to the opposition. Even the officials run around in a state of confusion for they do not know where the ball is half the time, either...