Word: make
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are things in New Haven which Harvard men cannot understand, there are things in Cambridge which the men from Yale look upon with astonishment and a certain sceptical disdain. But there is one point upon which the men of both institutions are equally agreed; they want to make the Harvard Yale game the finest sporting event in the country...
...vicissitudes of a varied season make it impossible for either team to carry away from the stadium this afternoon the crown of a championship. But the undoubted strength of the two teams, the expected colorful performance of several of their individual members, and the intense yet gracious emotion of their supporters promises an afternoon fully in accord with the fine old sporting tradition...
Tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock the Harvard University cross country team will entrain for New York, where the annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet will take place Monday afternoon over the regular Van Cortlandt Park course. Eight runners will make the trip, of whom seven will start the race...
Picking any sort of "all" team is in a good many ways a foolish way to waste time, because everybody knows that just because so and so says one player is better than another it doesn't make him actually so. But just the same every one is entitled to his own opinion and in most cases it, is just as liable to be right as the next fellow's all of which means that picking mythical football teams at least isn't an injurious way to waste time...
Whereupon no less than three hundred consecutive dramas with a backstage setting have been produced. The screen critics who are betting men make a comfortable living offering eight to five that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses...