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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Association was silent. No Harvard men gave any support to Hubbard's charges. But the judges and referees who officiated at the games were soon heard from. W. R. Okeson of Lehigh, referee and field judge, testifies that the games "were just good, clean contests between a lot of fine, decent boys coached by gentlemen sportsmen." W. G. Crowell, umpire and referee, described them in almost exactly the same language and said that violations of the rules were few and that penalties were imposed. "The players," said F. W. Murphy, umpire and field judge, "conducted themselves in a sportsmanlike...
...This irate old God who thunders imprecations from the mountain or mutters and grouches in the tabernacle, and whom Moses finds so hard to tame; who, in his paroxysms of rage, has massacred hundreds of thousands of his own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if cunning old Moses hadn't kept reminding him of 'what will the Egyptians say about it?' makes one feel utter contempt for the preachers and unfeigned pity for the mental state of those who can retail serious countenance as they per the stories of his peculiar whims...
...Hence a lot of funny pictures about Princeton men being pigs, even though everybody at Harvard knew they were good forward passers, and Princeton got excited. Princeton waited for Harvard to apologize, and Harvard waited for Princeton to get tired of waiting. Finally Princeton took the hint and just busted up the 'Big Three," saving Harvard's honor and dignity...
...possibilities for spicy humor of a clean nature are almost unlimited and the probability of big circulations for the student magazines is fine. Harvard certainly started something and the intercollegiate world owes a lot to the boys at Cambridge. Dignity is a fine thing in intercollegiate athletics. --Big Ten Weekly
...with national indifference as to the outcome. It really doesn't matter very much who a prince marries as long as she is amiable and takes a good picture. Perhaps the Archduke realizes all this but finds it difficult to break a century old habit. He really deserves a lot of sympathy. Not that the Italian Indy hasn't every charm in the world, but any man to be pitied who blunders into a family where Mussolini is the political mother...