Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are things in New Haven which Harvard men cannot understand, there are things in Cambridge which the men from Yale look upon with astonishment and a certain sceptical disdain. But there is one point upon which the men of both institutions are equally agreed; they want to make the Harvard Yale game the finest sporting event in the country...
From past performances, if scores mean anything, I think Yale with victories over Dartmouth, Army, and Princeton ought to enter the game a favorite, and I hope it does for from a psychological point that will give the Harvard team a distinct advantage...
...whole I believe that Harvard would find little of profit to be gleaned from the Cambridge system of handling varsity athletics. It would undeniably be of advantage to the Harvard Athletic Association if it could persuade coaches to serve without pay, but otherwise there would be no point in taking any of the leaves but of the English coaching book. If, for instance, we at Harvard are to have any outside assistance for our teams at all--and English practice affords the advocate of purely undergraduate coaching small encouragement--we may as well have it for the whole...
...Want Amateur Coaching at Harvard!"--Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student at Cambridge answers this important question from the point of view of the English coaching system...
...several very dubious telegrams being received at Yale point obviously to the fact that the disappearance of the fence is due to the equally traditional spirit of the college prank. Undergraduates are notoriously poor judges of the effects of what they are pleased to consider practical jokes and it is most improbable that the persons responsible for the purloining of the famous Yale antique had any conception of the really serious furore which the event is reported to have caused in New Haven. It is certainly to be hoped that those who consider themselves directly offended by the incident will...