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David Hyde, instructor in Physical Education, and Lyle Clark; football coach and instructor in Physical Education, are now aiding Fradd by acting as assistants, since classes number only 15 or 20, and from 350 to 300 boys must be instructed each winter...
During the last three years the physical stature of incoming students has greatly improved, the reason for which Fradd thinks lies in the fact that the system of corrective exercises, adopted at many colleges, male and female, has also been taken up in a large number of preparatory schools, to which reports on graduates are sent each year by the Department...
...Number one is short shock headed, and a Senior. He looks like a pouter pigeon in his football uniform. For two years he plugged away on the Jayvees as blocking back and guard, and got his chance on the Varsity this fall. After the Penn game Dick Harlow said, "He was out manned. I thought the Penn guards would ride him into the Charles River...
...Number two also stocky and small, team, he became a hero overnight last year when he played five minutes in the Army game and completed three out of four passes which resulted in a Harvard touchdown. Except for a couple of minutes last Saturday, he has never again played in a Varsity football game. He's "too small" and "too slow." But in practice he burns the turf off the practice with enthusiasm. His name is Bob James, and this last week he has held up sandbags for the A-team backs to block during practice...
Edwin Rolfe's book is the class history of a graduating class of 61-the number of men mustered by the Lincoln Battalion at its last inspection. Most of them were very young; the best soldiers among them were Communists. Their school was a bitter war. Of hundreds who did not graduate, most were neither flunked nor fired; they were casualties. In recording their names, words, battles, songs, commanders, Rolfe writes hardly ever as an individual but as the chosen chronicler of a group. His book is thus an official history, clearly and decently told but subject...