Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justified. Since the Cambridge climate makes it impossible for students to gain exercise outdoors during a large part of the academic year, this policy of the Corporation to sacrifice present welfare to a future reduction in the price of football tickets, or the complete abolition of extramural athletics is short-sighted at best...
...attempt to avenge a 5 to 1 defeat suffered at the hands of the Crimson nine last year. Coach Mitchell is planning to change his lineup slightly from that which faced Springfield on Saturday. B. H. Bassett '31 speedy centerfielder will resume his accustomed post after a short enforced layoff. The game will also see the first home appearance of J. D. Dudley in the catcher's role. With the return of these two men to the lineup, the nine should be at its fullest batting strength...
Brown, then, must depend for most of its points upon the hurdles, short runs, jumps, and the javelin. Holy Cross, having participated in no outdoor meets so far this season, is rather an unknown quantity...
...Hobgoblins also looked very much like men. They were one or two inches taller than the average learned man in Philadelphia last week. The younger ones were slender. All had big hips and small chests, long legs, short arms, slim hands, feet, toes, fingers. Most were baldheaded, most wore eyeglasses. The eyes, deep-set, showed high intelligence. But most eyes showed the shiftiness of neurasthenia, sometimes the glitter of insanity. They all had high, brainy foreheads, thin skulls, prominent narrow noses, prominent chins, small mouths, rotten, few and irregular teeth. Faces were pimply, blotched and lined from organic disease...
...virtues of extreme loyalty and unassailable courage. It was magnificent in battle, in battle rather than in war. It was, after all, General Lee, Virginia, who led the South; but he had Alabama tigers to lead; men born for fighting, capable of fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like...