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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hard one and it will be played in hostile territory. The support of Harvard men at the game will not be enough. Captain Dadmun and his men must have some fare- well demonstration to encourage them when they take the train. Ten minutes in the square cheering will mean much to the team and only a trifling sacrifice for the individual...
Over the causeways of history there stalks a giant figure--ever young, alert and bright-eyed. He is the Pioneer who has made history mean progress instead of a chronicle. Empires have been built, because he swept out over far seas, while statesmen stayed at home. Inventions and new ideas have been inaugurated, because the Pioneer dared and struggled against odds...
...chances are that Harvard will go into the Yale game at the top of its season's physical condition. This will mean a lot, as Harvard's game has been built this year for speed to put on against a heavier rushline, and a game that is aimed to take the ball around the Yale wings and to throw it over the New Haven forwards rather than to drive through the line...
...consideration on the part of the undergraduates and the Athletic Committee. The increasing tendency of college athletics is more and more towards the calculating, efficient ideal of modern business, and away from the recreative standard of true sport for sport's sake. The adoption of a progressive suggestion may mean a certain amount of sacrifice, but it is well worth while when the step tends towards better sportsmanship...
...registration figures of the University of Pennsylvania, just publisher show a gross enrolment of 9,392, representing a gain of 911 over the enrolment of 1915-16. This does not mean that the is the total of undergraduates, for the undergraduate body is composed of 54 Arts and Sciences men, 830 in Town Scientific, and 1,375 Wharton student only. Out of this number totalling of754, the material for athletic teams secured...