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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticisms of our University with that of Oxford which have come to my notice have placed their emphasis upon the many advantages which the English University enjoy over Harvard. No doubt there are many advantages in favor of our friends across the sea, but most people seem to lose sight of the consideration that Harvard has grown under different circumstances, to meet different problems and amid different influences, than those surrounding Oxford. The obvious result is that we must look at ourselves as we are in our own environment and improve where we can, and not say simply because such...
...overhead because the sun's rays are sorted out by the atmosphere, and the shorter waves (the blue ones) get through. At sunrise and sunset the rays must struggle through the thicker and denser atmosphere at the horizon, and the long red rays only can penetrate to our sight...
...Three season. Coach Wanamasker is expected to employ the same cautious tactics which won him the initial Crimson contest and lost his second engagement with the Tiger. Even before the Blue had obtained any lead over Harvard at the Arena three weeks ago, it was a common sight for three men to be playing in the Eli defense line. As the game wore on the Yale outfit left the attack more and more to individual sallies, but this same policy resulted in a zero score against the Orange and Black...
...care for the flapper grandmother; but the dignified preservation of a youthful viewpoint cannot be questioned. The wisdom of age combined with the enthusiasm of youth and a tolerance which is characteristic of no time of life but is, perhaps, a God-sent gift somewhat akin to second sight, is a state of bliss for anyone to contemplate...
...read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency he had suffered a thrombosis, a blood clot in the artery of one leg. While still President of Princeton University, he had practically lost the sight of one of his eyes from a retinal hemorrhage. At the time when he took office in 1913, his doctors were skeptical whether he would live through a four-year term of office, because he was suffering from incipient Bright's disease. His will was greater than these diseases...