Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changing and yet preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small now it is great. The first graduating class numbered only nine; of late commencement degrees are awarded to more than a thousand. At the outset all the graduates were trained to teach or to preach, which latter function was as much a matter of theology as the former was a matter of "the classics...
...versatile and effective play such as has rarely been seen, and Murphy and Dixon proved themselves one of the best pair of ends in the whole country. The former looked like all-American timber with his bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could use. Holy Cross too had some fine men on the field, notably O'Connell, the Sophomore back who ran eighty-odd yards from a kick-off here in the Stadium...
...true that I violated an old Cambridge ordinance forbidding free distribution of printed matter on the streets. I wanted to know whether the law was a dead letter or a threat over the heads of radicals. If the former, I thought it should be repealed; if the latter, I wanted the public to know...
...that any real smart fellow will know what to do about it. California will have a tough time with Stanford but the final score will be just about 12 to 7. And the same may be said of the Notre Dame outfit when it runs up against Northwestern. The latter may score; I'm not absolutely sure, but anyway the final count will find the South Benders ahead by 7 points, probably...
...become dispirited through the monotony of playing the same teams. In keeping with this attitude those in charge have arranged outside games for both the class and dormitory teams. The former have played Cambridge Latin, Rindge Technical, Boston English, Boston Latin, Brown & Nichols, Tabor Academy and Mechanic Arts; the latter have met the Andover Seconds, South Boston, Brown & Nichols, Thayer Academy and St. Paul's School. In the inter-class league, the informal outside games were preliminary to the objective class series. In the inter-dormitory league they were the objectives and the inter-dormitory games were preliminary. This...