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...animal face there was a snarl and a sneer that represented the discontent of a thousand others, and the lines and hollows that only starvation can leave distorted their features. They hardly knew where they were going, yet they dreamt that each painful step they took would bring them nearer to food, to the Baker and the Baker's wife...
...changes were apparent in the Harvard football camp yesterday where the eleven went through the usual practice work as the team moved a day nearer the culmination of the whole season's work. When the Crimson entrains at 10 o'clock Friday morning for New Haven the full complement of players will be in the best physical condition in several weeks. Hallowell is in good shape again, but has engaged in no actual contact work since the Tuesday following the Dartmouth game when he was injured. Easterly is back at left guard after several days on Team B. Gundlach...
...little shop-door above which a loudspeaker blats out its staccato, excited sentences. A roaring mob in a smoky arena stands up on its feet howling again and again. The grizzly farmer puffs faster on his pipe, his wife's knitting becomes jerky and distracted as they loan nearer their radio. A group of elderly gentlemen silently draw up their leather chairs...
...their 14-7 defeat at the hands of Pennsylvania last Saturday, the Indians are entering the Stadium confident of putting up a real fight, as they undoubtedly will do. Dartmouth played good football against the Quakers, but according to Coach Jack Cannell, the Big Green team will be much nearer its full strength today against Harvard. However, the Crimson players learned a good lesson in the evils of overconfidence last year, and there is little probability that they will suffer from the same malady this year. The situation comes down to the point that while Dartmouth has a good team...
...drenching evenings, and as the Vagabond trudged along, drawing himself bodily farther into the innermost warmth of his copious waterproof, he could not help exploring a trifle the grey depths of his youth. From faraway Massachusetts Avenue the groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle of the penetrating downpour. From the obscurity on the right rose the indistinct shape of an old haunt of the Vagabond's, now glistening white, grey, and silver in the flickering glimmer of a neighborly lamp post...