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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston collection. A thread or two of intrigue and deceit holds together its picturing of character and manners; the stages of Mrs. Smith's progress give it its movement; and seldom does Miss Stanwood lose her light hand. Such a satirical comedy of social "actualities," it is safe to say, no dramatic club in an American college has dared to attempt...
...good fellow,' so to speak--one whom every one liked. It is a great mistake. She has made it conspicuously on two occasions, but it is written down that that thing must not happen again. If one can generalize about this question of choosing a captain, I should say that Harvard has chosen her captains for their popularity or personal playing ability. Yale has looked almost wholly at football fibre and leadership. Yale is right, in my opinion. The third factor is the head coach; the man who is the brain and hand of the captain; the teacher, drill-master...
...season is the result of other factors in the equation. Few well-informed judges of football will deny that if Harvard and Yale swapped squads on September 25, the final result would remain unchanged. Taking these facts into consideration, I think we are setting it high enough when we say that the individual ability of the eleven untaught players is fairly represented as influencing twenty per cent. of the result...
...will say at once that thirty is an impossible number. It is, and it is not. Sixty is not impossible, if they work together under powerful leadership. Three is too many if they do not. In any case, accepted and admitted leadership is essential, meaning by that a head whose decisions are unhesitatingly accepted, and for whose policy, right or wrong, every man labors...
Little need be said of Coach Haughton and his methods, for everyone knows what success he has achieved as a football coach. It is sufficient to say that in the two years he has had charge of the team, Yale has been defeated once...