Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that will be wrought by radio lies in the fact that though one address goes to an audience of 30,000,000 the contagion of the crowd is gone. The magnetism of the orator cools when transmitted through the microphone. The impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color; the flashing eye meets no answering glance. . . . We sit in our library, in a room where we are accustomed to study and reflect, where all the surroundings are natural. When we there hear the same man speak we know him better than we could in the crowd...
During the first two periods of play, good defensive tactics were shown by both teams, but successful offensive plays were few. The first touchdown for the Army was scored when W. R. Harper '30 intercepted a forward pass from J. W. Potter '30 in the first period and raced 40 yards for a touchdown. The attempt of T. W. Gilligan '31 at goal after the touchdown was blocked...
...third period, Potter completed a long pass to F. A. Pickard '29, but since a Navy end was off-side, the play was called back. A little latter in the same quarter, an Army touchdown was disallowed because of an illegal use of hands in the Army line, when Giligan intercepted another pass from Potter and ran 75 yards for a touchdown...
...faint shudder ran through the ranks of the unenlightened when the Reading Period would be repeated in the high and far off times when Seniors would be wearing gowns and Yard concerts were the vogue for Brattle Street. But a whisper followed and as it ran, smoothed the ruffled brow and calmed the palpitating hand. For the Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite...
Life will go on; the longer Reading Period may even be a success. Only, perhaps, there will be heard on that opening night in mid-May one mighty tribute to the first hiatus in the old union on the stage of Harvard and Radcliffe; a single great welling sob, acknowledging the Harvard heaven houriless...