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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Torbie Macdonald will not be in the starting lineup and is even a doubtful participant in the game. He returns to practice today, but when he will be ready for heavy contact work is undetermined. The other Harvard question mark, tackle Mose Hallett, was jogging around the Field House during much of the afternoon and should be able to relieve Vern Miller for a few minutes against Princeton...
...Czestochowa, famous for its Black Madonna shrine, and Cracow, where the Polish kings are buried, will be allowed to remain in the buffer State as a mark of German respect for Polish religious and patriotic feelings...
Thus passed into virtual oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...
...became his friends were Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, William Rose Benét and his wife, Elinor Wylie. Advised Lindsay: "Base the serious side of your criticism of poetry with the tone of Abraham Lincoln as a touchstone, and the criticism of humor on the tone of Mark Twain. . . . We must have a humorous standard. Young writers. . . have been offered every kind of freedom by the critics but this-the freedom to laugh...
...Harvard question mark is partially solved by Saturday's shellacking at the hands of the Penn Quakers. At present the Crimson falls way short of greatness or even popular anticipation. But while the results of the Penn game were discouraging, prediction of successive losses is a cry far afield...