Word: markes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practice, which started after the Penn football game, two weeks earlier than is usual, has so far consisted in drills on fundamentals, with passing, dribbling, and conditioning exercises as the main drills. The scrimmage next week will mark the beginning of team play...
...Pleasant as it would be to point to this virtue of silence as a distinctive Harvard trait, it must be said that much of the credit is due to the work and personal character of Mr. Horween himself. His quiet, unassuming, and business-like manner make him a difficult mark for the anvil chorus. There is always the feeling that he is working to the best of his ability on a difficult job. Above all he has won the respect of his athletic pupils. Harvard football, win or lose, can pride itself on having a coach who is a credit...
There is in process at the present time one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted in historical writings. Mark Sullivan has once more come forth with a volume which psycho-analyzes in terms of newspaper headlines, once current fads and fancies, forgotten manias, previous eras of the United States. He has written not exactly a history but rather the evolution of a popular mentality. Having begun this peculiar method of examination in "The Turn-Of-A-Century" the first part of that work called in entirely "Our Times", he continues it in the second part, "America Finding Herself...
...Mark Sullivan's contribution to historiography is by no means one of merely fictional interest. "Our Times" admittedly is entertaining but its chief value lies not in its entertainment values but as a source. The immediate public for whom Sullivan is narrating the genesis of modern America is a public whose members were in active life when the events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan...
...humanized any portion of history is to have made possible a greater degree of sympathy on the part of succeeding generations: and with sympathy minimizes bigotry and misunderstanding. No future student of that beefsteak and-whiskey decade which began the present century can afford to miss its powerful exponent Mark Sullivan...