Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday's clash with the Indians of Dartmouth may seem a long way off, last actually all that separates Dick Harvard's eleven now from this all important tilt is about eight short hours of practice. Eight hours in which to prepare for Wild Bill Hutchinson, Ted Arlen, Bob Krieger...
...Harvard question mark is partially solved by Saturday's shellacking at the hands of the Penn Quakers. At present the Crimson falls way short of greatness or even popular anticipation. But while the results of the Penn game were discouraging, prediction of successive losses is a cry far afield...
...Plan's anonymous financial angels thus have reason to rejoice, mere appointments are not sufficient to insure the Plan's success. In the undergraduate mind the Plan is still associated with the notion of "study" which the Bliss examinations represented. Although these have happily been abolished in favor of short essays for the same appealing prizes, it remains for the Chairman and the counselors to "sell" Harvard on the American Civilization idea...
...ideology. Meanwhile the rising generation gives scant evidence of readiness to assume America's fair share in the defense of our civilization. Even those exposed to education incline to turn from the leadership appearing in the university world and take up the chant of the politicians: Be selfish. Be short sighted. Be cowardly. Be American! So may we demonstrate that the life of one complacent American is more precious than the lives of many Europeans who have mustered the courage to stand at the barrier...
...that St. Peter, or the Devil (as the case may be), can't give Alexander Dumas a short vacation from his Life Eternal, just long enough for him to drop in at the University and see what United Artists have done with his adventure story, "The Man with the Iron Mask." He would be well-pleased...