Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puffer did relief work in the Yale series last spring and is the only letterman on Coach Mitchell's mound staff. He is said to possess the most deceptive curve ball of any of the Crimson hurlers, but last year his control was none too good. In his one start this year, he showed a complete reversal of form, and held the C. U. hitters to four hits in the eight innings that he toiled. He was removed for a pinch hitter at that time, and not because of the pressure of the opposing stickmen, though he lost the decision...
Several causes are now assigned to the uncanny revolving of the strange receptacles, among them nicety of balance, vibrations, air currents, and a particular penchant which the baskets themselves seem to possess toward a revolving life...
...Should subsequent investigation (to be made in all cases) show that the children are not being reared under decent conditions, then the father and mother shall be segregated from each other until such time as they may possess the means to rear their children adequately...
...Modern day dramas," continued Miss Forrest, "are of the very poorest type. Their plots possess nothing but the same old sentimental appeal to the audience. The public is desirous of something now, something startling. That is why it patronizes the musical comedy, in a vain attempt to unearth something spectacular. The public will never be satisfied. It will turn next to the serious drama; then, we will have another complete reversion to the musical revue. I predict, however, that in five years, Ziegfeld's Follies will be a thing of the past...
Comment concerning the incarceration of John Abbott '25, in an Italian gaol has been rife among members of the Current Events Club at Harvard during the last two days. Of course, the subject does possess enough local background to give it savor and flavor. Yet, after all, its importance is, to say the most, conversational...