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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played, with the tremendous interest that it evokes among graduates, friends, and other supporters; with newspapers devoting expert analysts, feature writers, and photographers; with the coaching staff and retainers of each side numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read his mail, for fear of finding out something about the opposing team. The mere presence of a Harvard man at Yale during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOUTING | 11/26/1927 | See Source »

...true at all are too true to need repeating--but with a dire prediction of the consequences should America engage in a war with England. That it would be a large, expensive, and spectacular war goes without saying; Mr. Tomlinson, however, predicts a complete world breakdown as an inevitable result, a breakdown which would leave the United States with no market for its commerce, and hence with a barren and fatal victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

...given by the English Speaking Union. It is a reasoning which might be applied not only to the United States and England but to any other two nations or groups of nations. More cogent than all appeals to past friendships and obligations, is a frank statement as to the result,-- win or lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

...secure highest honors in that field are faced with the restrictive option of either learning the language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOLF! WOLF! BEOWULF! | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

...most important occurance at Harvard. The CRIMSON does not share in this opinion. It, to be frank, does not think that a student juggling a football while studying represents a true picture of Harvard life--and if the abolition of this, and other similar habits has been the result of the CRIMSON's policy, the CRIMSON has no regrets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO BE FRANK | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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