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...same case may be seen Samuel Taylor Coleridge's copy of 'Barclaii Argenis", with notes in the owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English...
...consider his defence problems solved with such material, but these three men will have to wage war for their positions against two stars of last years. Freshman team, undefeated throughout a long season. M. N. Stanley '29 and H. W. Bigelow '29, made things unpleasant for the Freshmen's schoolboy rivals last winter, and both of them will be out for the University team this year. Stanley will be out from the start of the season, and Bigelow as soon as he can get his scholastic difficulties straightened out, which should at the latest be in time for the Yale...
...aggregation has improved steadily, and has attained to a machine-like co-ordination in both attack and defense that bespeaks great possibilities. Last week, in handing a 22 to 0 defeat to Worcester Academy, the Freshmen were not obliged to kick once, so perfect was their throttling of the schoolboy attack...
...crimson-jerseyed warriors out-played their younger opponents in every department of the game. The 1930 line charged hard and effectively, and the backs, shifty and fast, eluded the schoolboy tackles to reap big gains. Particularly effective in gaining ground for the Freshmen was a forward pass, thrown from a take end run formation. The Crimson passing game was fairly smooth, about half of the attempted heaves being completed...
Worcester fumbled often, and this loose handling of the ball nullified any attack. The schoolboy backs were unable to pierce the stone-wall defense presented by the Freshman forward wall, and were forced to resort to kicking. Good punting was instrumental in holding down the score...