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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present administration has built courageously and well upon the foundations laid by Dr. Eliot. It is therefore obvious that it appreciates the worth of that foundation and intends fittingly to commemorate the maker at a service in which all Harvard can participate. The CRIMSON feels most strongly however, that such a service has been postponed overlong and that at least a statement of the plans of the administration should on issued to still rising apprehension that Harvard as a corporate body has failed in a primary qualification of the educated gentleman appreciation of true greatness where such appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE ADMINISTRATION | 12/11/1926 | See Source »

...they even went so far as to have defensive players deliberately make it apparent that they were out of position, in order to invite the offense to strike apparent weaknesses only to find that the weakness was not real when the play was actually under way. It is obvious, therefore, that the power of the offense in 1908 consisted largely in the quarterback guessing a play. Then followed the period of a definite, scientifically planned offense. Finally the development of defense nullified these scientific methods of play selection. To put the offense again in the ascendancy, various coaches developed shift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. L. Knox, Second's Mentor, Defends Use of Huddle System --Says That Huddle Gives Offense Greater Versatility | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...Congress. More important, it was decentralized to a certain extent by the basis laid for regional work last week-end. Top heavy, centralized organization in a geographical unit of the size of the United States would lay the Federation open immediately to all sorts of objections which are too obvious to be detailed. This snare, again, the N. S. T. A. has avoided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT FEDERATION | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...Build new dining-halls. It would be unwise to open a renovated and rejuvenated Memorial Hall. This experiment, tried as a final resort just before the final closing of the institution, was a failure once, and probably would be again. The most obvious site for one such dining-hall is the vacant lot on the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Sts., this hall to serve men in the dormitories in the vicinity. Others should be erected where possible with a view toward accommodating the occupants of the Yard dormitories, and the students in the Kirkland St., Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Build New Dining Halls" Is First Suggestion of Winner | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

Animals, especially small bead-eyed rodents whose tails must obvious though invisible, are Rackham specialties. He is a man to see that their personalities quite comprehensible, differing from ours only at their extremities where he observes the distinction by bringing their legs and arms out of pantaloons and shirtsleeves with paws and claws instead feet and hands. He makes a muskrat's ear quite as eloquent as unearthly tresses of an undine, rather badly jointed wooden doll is as truly alive to him as the most grizzled of grey old men who have obviously been alive for centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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