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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football team which takes a more consistent and bruising beating than that of guard it has yet to be discovered, and this is especially true when the opposition is expected to count on its line attack for those vital two and three-yard gains the success of which often spells victory or defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap...
...occasion. It stands, within long memory, as the first of its kind ever known here. To be sure, local alumni associations of friendly colleges finding themselves assembled for their annual dinners on the same night in different rooms of the same hotel or club-building in Boston, have often exchanged gifts of good will, sending committees of greeting the one to the other. Again, the alumni of different colleges have quite often united in joint assemblies of one sort and another. But it is difficult, if not impossible, to recall any instance when the grace of host-ship has been...
...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...
Such is the general tenor of conversations often held between a certain famed young man and the bright young person whom he calls his wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...
...could not take more than one set. Semi-finally Tilden played left-handed John Doeg of Santa Monica. Cal.. partner of George Lott in the doubles championship (TIME, Sept. 9). Doeg won the first set. Tilden won the second, Doeg won the third. The crisis, which Tilden had often arranged in the past for its histrionic effect, suddenly became an actuality, frightening and consequential. The gallery, which had been applauding Doeg, changed sides and clapped for Tilden. Doeg, like all the younger players, was so surprised at being really ahead of Tilden that he started double-faulting, lost...