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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. L. Casey '19, of the Freshman eleven expects a hard game, but sees an encouraging sign in the greater co-operation and team spirit of the men, all of which has developed in the past week. Against Andover, the weakness of the Freshmen lay not so much in offense or defense, but in lack of co-ordinate team-play, which is due, naturally enough, to the abbreviated length of time that the men had worked together. Another week's work has smoothed one many of the rough spots, and a much-improved eleven will take the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOOTHER FRESHMAN TEAM TACKLES EXETER OUTFIT ON FOREIGN FIELD | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

Commenting upon the intellectual condition of America at the present time, Prof. Murray spoke of the wave of self-criticism that is sweeping over the country. "This self-criticism, ranging from the diatribes of Mencken to the bickerings of mean backbiters, is an encouraging sign of advancement. Dissatisfaction with self is always an indication of development, and it is a sign of health for a nation to be able to stand the withering fire of criticism that both England and America are at present undergoing at the hands of their own people. Only the other day I heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTERNAL CONTROL IS ADVOCATED BY MURRAY | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

...first important defense witness was George E. Williams, Mr. Miller's Managing Director in 1921, who testified that he had full responsibility or the passage of the claim, that Colonel Miller had done little more than sign the necessary papers upon his (Williams') assurance that it was proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Trial Continued | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Muscovy, told the gentlemen of his court to shave off their beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rug | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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