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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular, what does the cover mean? Is Mr. Cox giving us a now version a La Rodin of what two gargoyles are doing in a certain cloisters in Oxford, or is it a fight? Mr. Cox stimulates the imagination. Many thanks to him for telling us the name of Eddie Morris. The High Hat Club is a good collection of drawings, but the captions--they are the real High Hat part of it. What are they all about...
Josiah Marvel Jr. Yale '27: "There is too much organization and not enough informality in the life at Harvard. I have also noticed that a man's club seems to mean more to him than the College, which may or may not be a good thing...
...rowed in heavy eights in the fixed seats and alternated seating, the second on slides in center-seated light "shells." These latter races are by far the more important and the week during which they are rowed is known as "Eights week". It constitutes a social event of no mean importance in the life of the undergraduate. It is then that his family and lady friends, the two sometimes clash, expect, to be invited to Oxford, taken out in punts and given tea on the barge...
...three touchdowns, despite my explaining to loin the New liaren traditions of quarter back play. He sees no logical reason why a porous Harvard line becomes adamant within their own ten-yard line. The fact that Yale has scored but one touchdown in the Stadium since 1907 doesn't mean a things to him. He has never seen the Yale trick play of a pass from the center to the great open spaces. But the little fellow will learn. Give him time. Even Yale men haven't learned it thoroughly yet, judging from the quoted odds in our daily journals...
...know what traditions mean at New Haven, and I don't believe the no-touch-down-in-the-stadium tradition will be lightly tossed aside. I understand that "Ducky" Pond sat lone on at Yale Fence completely ostracized, after he forgot he was in the Stadium and ran 60 yards with a recovered fumble for Yale's only Stadium touchdown since Joe Forecast first pair of rompers. And with that lesson in mind two years later, the Yale backs argued and argued as to who would make the supreme sacrifice but on would do it. And who has ever questioned...