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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article such as this I can give no idea of the tremendous excitement which such races arouse. Their result is always in doubt. A "crab", or still worse, bad coxing may spell disaster; a dogged stroke in the boat ahead may stave off defeat with the enemy prow hanging above his rudder...
...sided scores tell the story of the games immediately before and after the war. In 1923 Yale finally broke the spell with a 13 to 0 victory, scoring the only touchdown which the Bulldog has pushed across in the Stadium since 1907. Two victories and a tie since that lone touchdown indicate that the Blue may be on the eve of a football resurrection to avenge her dearth of victories for 19 years...
...explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though they might know the value of hypnotism in sickness, fear causing the ridiculous or mischievous while under the suggestor's spell. They fear also that the skillful will to which they might submit themselves might make them perform unwonted acts after they awoke. Neither of these fears has authority. The physician using hypnotism makes no sport with his patients. Even in hypnosis a patient only most reluctantly performs against his inherent...
Twenty years ago the policeman would not have had to ask how to spell "Marceline." He would have been accustomed to seeing it in big shiny letters over the entrance to the Hippodrome, biggest Manhattan theatre. The little, inexpressive brown face with the smear of blood would have reminded him of another face, with the same features, set in a foolish pointed smile. He would have recognized the dusty, madly tailored evening clothes that Marceline had taken out of his trunk before he killed himself, as the uniform of the most famous clown since the days of Grimaldi...
When the realization finally came that to wait was futile, Dartmouth tried valiantly to snake dance with all the abandon that the occasion required, but the spell had been broken: Their enthusiasm had been self-suppressed in its spontaneous state, in the cause of sports-manlike conduct--not to insult their opponents with a contempt for the victory. A Harvard football scalp is still a cherished prime in Hanover, though not to be valued higher than a tradition of courtesy...