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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton the victory over what was seen to be the better team. Princeton supporters, therefore, have good cause to look forward this season to the first victory over Yale in many years. Both elevens have unusual reasons for feeling that a victory is necessary and it is safe--to say--that the game will be hard-fought, desperate football from the start. If Princeton wins, the 1911 football championship is settled; if Yale wins, it will require a defeat by Harvard next Saturday to give Princeton any further claim to the highest football honor. On the other hand if Yale...
...Kelley said that the problem of poverty cannot be solved from above. The attempts of women to obtain even humane working laws are met with the arguments that such laws are unconstitutional. The judges admit that conditions in factories today are absolutely cruel, yet they say that women, with a few minor limitations, are citizens, and consequently cannot be deprived of their property rights...
...with the "inside" in football to comprehend that this afternoon's game will prove a crucial one for the University eleven. Two teams, likely to figure in championship records, come to their annual game with clean scores. They meet in a 60-minute gridiron battle. It is safe to say that one will drop from the list of highest football honors...
...ailment there is a remedy. Trite it is to say that concerted cheering and like expressions of moral support more than counteract the lack of confidence such as the team may feel this afternoon. Nevertheless, it seems to us that another splendid demonstration of enthusiasm similar to that which characterized last year's mass meetings in the Union is due in the stands today. Let all those who appreciate what defeat or victory against Brown implies, what meeting Yale and Princeton with a clean record implies, and above all what irresponsible and compelling enthusiasm implies, let these men, we say...
...play that remotely approached comedy. But last night found her at the Hollis in a part that is all comedy and of a very light and pleasant sort. Avery Hopwood wrote "Nobody's Widow" and David Belasco put it on the stage. Consequently it is very difficult to say who is the more responsible for the grace and brightness of dialogue and atmosphere that almost make the play seem high comedy instead of very superior farce. It has little body, to be sure, but it has a light touch in the writing and many amusing turns of situation. Miss Bates...