Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which gives to sectionalism its worth as a factor in the national life. The Pasadena game brought the East and the West closer together, and made each know the other better than it had before. May the good feeling which it has aroused between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards prove an earnest of other intersectional contests in the future. -Boston Transcript
Harvard was not the first to send an athletic representation across the continent for the encouragement of intersectional athletics. But she does hold the honor of being the first to prove that a college eleven can make such a trip, and, with a reasonably short training period, play a winning game against a skilful and determined opponent. The value of such an exposition is great. It has ever been the aim of Americans to further the broadening of national thought by breaking down the barriers of provincialism. The New Year's Day game proved conclusively the solidifying effect that intercollegiate...