Word: marly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Mallory and to his splendid team--worthy to rank among the great elevens of any university of all time--Harvard is only too anxious to do honor. Alert and powerful, Yale earned on Saturday the victory she deserved and which the most trying conditions imaginable could not mar. Harvard is proud of her record of victories over Yale, but she can never forget how to lose nor how to honor the team which broke her record of success...
Moreover - and this must be to its credit as a text-book - the author suppresses his personal views throughout with rather uncanny skill. No interesting prejudices mar the smooth uniformity of a text as flowing and clear and lacking in depth and shadings as a single straight line of ink drawn across white paper...
Still events pursue their inexorable path. It is remarkable that the week has passed off so successfully and no small honor is due to the members of the University and especially to their faithful friends. There was but one noticeable mistake to mar Class Day. That was the program of songs which the Glee Club offered in its concert on the steps of Widener. There are few who do not know by experience or by report the ability of the club. But to sing old or new classics before an audience particularly in the mood for a program...
...Maréchal Foeh said that the word invincible means " someone who has not yet been vanquished." Literary circles of Paris discussed this new definition with much heat, but although they felt that M. le Maréchal was wrong they had a sneaky feeling that his meaning ought to be right. Finally, the Forty Immortals of the Académie Française decided that invincible means what le Maréchal Foeh said it meant...
Here is a field of unlimited opportunity for publicly-inclined students, and there are, indeed, evidences that it does not need advertising. Still, "tasting" must be encouraged only as a serious profession; no frivolity should mar its beautiful self-sacrifice...