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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This duel reminds one of Mark Twain's experience. As a second to one of the somewhat corpulent participants, he was delegated to stand directly in his principal's rear. At the sight of his opponent's toy pistol, the duelist fainted into Mark Twain's arms, carrying away everything behind him. If one is to believe our humorist, he received thirteen wounds, only seven of them fatal, and enjoyed the distinction of being the first person injured in a French duel in twenty years...
...more the presentation of opinions from every angle. While this does not make demagogues or fanatics, it does exercise, in the words of Henry Adams, "a negative force of greatest value" which smoothes out the "violent political bias of childhood". It forms men with broad minds and far sight, men who "see things straight and see them whole". To keep Harvard worthy of its reputation must be the care of its officers, its graduates and its undergraduates...
...when all the members of the squad worked themselves into a frenzy and then proceeded to tear each other to pieces. Without doubt such an event would put new energy into the team. But coming on the eve of the Dartmouth game with a series of hard games in sight, such a strenuous experiment might prove costly. Last year there was no fight week...
...There are so many great men among the graduates of Harvard", said Prof. Hart in commenting on the purpose of the tablet "that we are apt to lose sight momentarily of the fact that the greatest of them all spent his entire college course in a dwelling which many of us pass by every...
...ball game. There she saw Tiny Tyler, the home-run kind, make an incredible catch, "as God might pick a comet." She insisted on meeting him. He wore diamond shirt studs in his evening clothes, but that didn't matter-the result of meeting was amorosity at first sight. Judith did her best to play Cleopatra to Tiny, but her ancestors were against her-she couldn't be a bad woman no matter how hard she tried. And besides Tiny respected her too much -so she simply had to marry him. Things went all right for a while...