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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Play Would be Fair Throughout...
...There is no apparent reason, therefore, why the seven institutions listed above should not confine their games to each other. There can be no valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere...
...even under present football rules, small institutions are not reasonable competitors for large institutions. I am such a thorough believer in intercollegiate competition that I find no difficulty in considering an Eastern league and a Western league of natural competitors, and I would leave opportunity for the winners to play at the end of the season on some neutral college ground or municipal stadium which would be conveniently accessible to both...
George Arliss has brought a Barrie play of marked distinction to the Hollis Street Theatre in "The Well Remembered Voice", which is given in conjunction with Hubert Henry Davies' three act comedy, "The Mollusc." A war story with a spiritual theme has to be unusually convincing to hold the interest of the theatre going audience today--the public is rather well fed up now on the war. Yet Barries' play is not only convincing, it is artistic and sets us to metaphysical speculations and analyses, which our ordinary every day life tends to suppress...
...with a clean slate, and by dint of careful management create a circle of natural athletic friendships. Meeting the other fellow half-way must be our motto. And if the addition of this game to the schedule, helps to dispel the illusion, still prevalent, that the University wishes to play only two difficult matches a season, it will serve its purposes. Harvard is only too glad to have the opportunity of blotting out the memory of Tufts' victory...