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...armies can prevail. It is scientific destruction. The Frankenstein created by man is triumphant, and man must kill it. When strong men rode out to meet strong men, face to face and sword against sword, war was little more to be condemned that a football game. It was Olympian strife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PACIFISM | 1/18/1924 | See Source »

Next came this Fall an almost Johnsonian smoke shop. Tiled floors and robins egg blue walls and a samovar lured still other aesthetes to these Olympian regions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cultural Center of Harvard at Mt. Auburn and Dunster Shines in Gaudy Dress as More Intellectuals Move In | 10/5/1923 | See Source »

...among people who had sporting blood in their veins. There were many people in ancient Greece whose patriotism did not prevent them from deeply resenting the intrusion of Leonidas and his battle of Thermopylae into the year 480 B. C., which was one of the years scheduled for the Olympian games. They regarded that as a great impertinence of patriotism. At all events, the integrity of Helas secured, the interest of the people gravitated back to the runners quite naturally. Our country saved, we are awarding the same preeminence to football. There is something in it. One race finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Shifting of Interest. | 11/18/1916 | See Source »

...pole-vault and 660-yard dash. A. C. Gilbert '08 M.S. cleared the bar at 10 feet 10 inches, while E. B. Parsons '07 won the 660-yard run from a field of six, among whom were M. W. Sheppard, and Paul Pilgrim, who won in the Olympian games at Athens last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter | 11/21/1906 | See Source »

...Clark '96 gave an illustrated lecture in the Union last evening, on "Athletics." Mr. Clark traced briefly the development of form in track and field events, showing slides of the leading professional and amateur athletes. Pictures of the Olympian Games, illustrating the stadium and the procession of the victors with their diplomas and olive branches, were also shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. E. H. Clark '96 on "Athletics." | 3/16/1904 | See Source »

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