Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University team will have a slight advantage in weight and size this afternoon according to a comparison of the probable line-ups. The Crimson eleven will average 183 pounds per man while the Orange and Black team will only average 179 pounds, giving Harvard an advantage of four pounds per man. In the backfield Harvard will have a distinct advantage in weight, the Crimson backs averaging 173 pounds to Princeton...
...squad will have a light workout tomorrow afternoon before entraining for Princeton. Leaving at five o'clock they will spend the night in New York; on Friday they will proceed to Princeton for a slight workout in the Palmer Stadium. Friday evening the squad will motor to Trenton to spend the night at the Stacey Trent Hotel. On Saturday they will return to Princeton to meet the Tiger before a crowd...
Charles William Eliot's slight volume, Harvard Memories, has issued from the Cambridge presses in crimson covers. It is a family book in which the venerable chief-emeritus of Harvard talks to great-grandsons concerning the days-before-football. In those days "students had no hot water. But all the dormitories now have running water, and you can hardly imagine how great an improvement that has made in the manners and customs of Harvard students...
...passing of the day "when hearts were young and knights were bold," it has been the general impression that duels were no longer au fait. Happily this glorious remnant of chivalry is not yet laid to rest in France and steel once more flashes against steel for so slight a provocation as a disagreement over theatre tickets. Alas, although the spirit flames as before, the flesh lacks practice; the combat ended with a scratch on the throat. So fades the glory of a once splendid...
Coach Cowles seeding order received a slight upset in the singles matches yesterday when Cummings, number five, was defeated by Perkins, number six, the score being...