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...Elis bucked to the one yard line in four plays, and Corry completed the rout with his quarterback sneak. The shutout marked the third game this season in which the Crimson has failed to score...
Eikenberry is out with pulled leg tendons, and while Simeurian, a star of Saturday's rout, dressed for practice Jordan decided to rest him and play Cheek in his place. Also missing from action was sophomore tallback Walt Stahura, who has a bruised back. However, Jordan said after practice that barring injuries this week, his team would be at full strength for the Big Red invasion...
...these all make the [male] as . . . ineffectual as[he] is ever likely to be In addition, the lore of the honeymoon-the vast repertory of awful jokes, none dignified-may be added to the anxiety ... At best there may be a hopeless anxious fumbling effort, certain to complete the rout of a tense, frightened ashamed and embarrassed girl. . . Indeed it almost seems wonderful that any marriages have ever survived...
Officers and Gentlemen ends, after the rout on Crete and the nearly simultaneous breakup of the Russo-German alliance, with the hero's "deflation." Crouchback finds himself "back after less than two years' pilgrimage in a Holy Land of illusion in the old ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought...
...September came, bringing the Class of 1930 into its sophomore year, and two sophomore backs, Wallace R. Harper and Guy Holbrook led the varsity to a 14-6 victory over Holy Cross. But Dartmouth had improved since the previous year, and the improvement was enough to rout the varsity, 30 to 6. Once again Harper's solid line-bucking stood...