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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said a black cat's-I mean bone...
...West Point, Pennsylvania Military College. Harvard, with a battered lineup, did not look hopefully toward the final game with Yale until a 198-pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals...
...clearly the corollary statement illumines the whole. The growth of Harvard to meet the demands of a country interested in education could easily mean sacrifice of standards, of that atmosphere of scholarly calm and intellectual poise, so often alien to the popular mechanics of education. Harvard has developed height as well as breadth. With more exacting requirements than ever in her history, the College of Arts and Sciences, real and necessary center of an American university, has this startling record of undergraduate fidelity to intellectual interests...
...reef pictures of the "boys" off for the trenches and to curse the "Boche" and the "Hun". This week Mr. and Mrs. Smith sat through and obviously enjoyed a moving picture whose here is a German prisoner of war, whose villain is a French officer, whose subject is the mean absurdity of all war and war spirit. "Barbed Wire" is the finest and most complete pictorial indictment of war which has appeared. It must quite frankly be considered "propaganda art." Nevertheless, Mr. and Mrs. Smith applaud...
Epistles: To deny he will accept nomination for Attorney General-"When I say I am a candidate for a particular office I mean it; and when I say I am not a candidate for a particular office, I mean that, too. When I became candidate for Governor, I renounced my candidacy for Attorney General; and other candidates were invited into the field. I would despise myself forever were I now to become a candidate against any of these men whom, by my action, I have invited to become candidates...