Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English stranger, who is kindly asked to review the new number of the Harvard Advocate, lies under some plain disabilities. He cannot compare it with previous issues, or with other enterprises of the kind (if such there be) in this country. In the British Universities there are many student, or sometimes dannish journals, and they have nursed many a notable writer. But the scale, frequency, and resources of such ventures are much greater here. If the contributors, like the managers, are, in the case of the Advocate, of undergraduate standing (and even if they are not), then the level...
...Murray-Threipland, for instance, an old Etonian in the bow of the Oxford shell, and M. F. A. Kean, an old Haileyburian, in the Cambridge bow. The stalwart on the Cambridge stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough for the Oxonians. J. A. Brown had already steered two Cantab crews to victory in as many years and Sir James Croft, the mouse-eyed little man in the Oxford stern, peeked over at him nervously. But Sir Jeremy could have...
...uniforms which the University team will wear this year are to undergo a decided change from those formerly used due to an injunction by Coach Mitchell. The time-honored custom of wearing plain shirts has been abandoned and the Crimson players will open their season with the word "Harvard" emblazoned on their breasts...
...first game of the season against Boston University next Saturday was afforded last Saturday afternoon. It was announced at the same time that a change in uniforms of the players had been made and shirts with the word "Harvard" upon them will be substituted for the plain shirts hitherto worn...
...Cambridge, Arthur Andrews Holbrook '28, of Milwaukee, Wis., Thorndike Dudley Howe Jr. '28, of Boston, Robert Ingle Hunneman '28, of Brookline, William Barksdale Jones '28, of Vaughan, Miss., David Arms Lomasney '28, of Toledo, Ohio, William Ashley Magie '28, of Chicago, Ill., Albert Henry O'Neil '28, of Jamaica Plain, James Lawrence Pool '28, of New York, N. Y., and William Gordon Saltonstall '28, of Readville, Mass...