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...more life, dash and rhythm? I am not indulging in any censorious Jeremiad, for it was evident to every spectator that the Harvard team could not have beaten the Princeton team, even if they had played far beyond themselves and there is no disgrace nor no cause for self-reproach whenever one loses to a superior opponent. I am simply greatly worried about the contrast in the general condition and attitude of the two sets of players, one of the most striking and even tragic contrasts I have seen in the forty-five years of following football contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/11/1924 | See Source »

...with no axe to grind at some other man's expense, you would be a perfectly legitimate exhibit here alongside our upright apes and bounding baboons from the African outdoors. But it will not do to install you here, as your presence would be denounced as a reproach to the majority of the proletariat and an insult to predatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Low Taste | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...reports, however, the Council wishes to record its condemnation of this pernicious practice wherever it may be found, and to urge component societies and constituent associations to purge their membership of any who wilfully refuse to desist from such practice, the continuance of which can only bring dishonor and reproach on the medical profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A. M. A. Congress | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

Coach Stewart will probably give Puffer another chance on the mound for the seconds. The latter's main fault against Andover was in his fielding. His pitching against the schoolboy's sluggers was above reproach, and Coach Stewart is confident that practice will improve his fielding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS TO ENCOUNTER ST. JOHN'S PREP TEAM | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Cobra. One of those plays in which sex is held up to reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 5, 1924 | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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