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Captain Green's team will go into the clash in their best physical condition since Brown, and for the first time since before Cornell, they have been through a mid-week scrimmage which should sharpen their tackling and blocking. As we have been saying for four successive Saturdays, watch the passing. Tailbacks Frank Foley and Austin Harding have never looked more deadly with the spirals than the week just passed. Watch Joe Gardella, sophomore fullback sensation and ranking with Cliff Wilson as the defensive satellite of the backfield...
...civilian eyes & ears. An Army reservation surrounded by civilians, and big enough for a variety of targets and ground defenses, was the Field Artillery's Fort Bragg, 100 miles inland from the North Carolina coast. Two months ago, Brig. General Fulton Quintus Caius Gardner went to work to sharpen civilian eyes, prick civilian ears in 39 counties and 20,758 square miles around Fort Bragg. In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters willing to look & listen from 6 to 10 p.m., 4 to 8 a.m. on designated days...
...once in the kitchen, ready to operate, "Pop" was content. While the instruments boiled, he tried to josh the patient into feeling as confident as he did, sometimes had them offering to sharpen his tools. When one kitchen was too small, he set up his plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache...
...sharpen up their shooting eyes after a lay-off of three weeks only broken by an unofficial game with the St. Nicks, who won 4-2, two Crimson lines scrimmaged with the Bruins at the Garden Thursday...
...which was never so freely accessible as to the seekers of today? You have at least some understanding of the distinction between a disciplined and an undisciplined insight. Is it your opinion that the former is worth the toil and labor it involves? Has your ambition been aroused to sharpen daily your own intellectual weapons? In short, are you going to continue your education or will you soon throw it overboard and with it your independence as a modern...