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Coach Davidson, who was in charge in the absence of Coach Mitchell, put W. H. MacHale '31 on the mound. The latter pitched good ball until the eighth, when four hits were bunched off him for two runs. Until this stanza, only one run was secured off his delivery, that in the opening inning when Carlsten, lead-off man for the Red and Blue, clouted a home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PETERSON PITCHES PENN TO 3-0 WIN OVER CRIMSON | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

During the fifth and sixth frames. Molloy, who had assumed twirling duties, baffled the Villanova willow-wielders, but a series of safe blows in the seventh gave them what proved to be their winning run. The Harvard pitcher had matters well in hand from then on. The final stanza saw the spectacular Crimson rally fail narrowly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLY IN NINTH FALLS SHORT | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...level of discreditable mediocrity and sheer futility of the issue, stands, as his verses have stood elsewhere, Mr. J. R. Agee's rendering of the Horation "Parcius junctas quatiunt fenestras" into first rate English poetry. His lines are at once instinct with poetic feeling and accurate as paraphrase. The stanza overflow is capably handled and the meter admirably suitable. It seems that wherever Mr. Ageo prints his work the level of the periodical is thereby raised, and it is with the pious wish that we mav hear more from him in these transalpine wastes that we conclude these catalogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS ADVOCATE SOURLY IMPERTINENT | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid Aside his antihuman grudge - His owner - and Sir Ernest Budge! Egyptologist Budge, whose honors and attributes take up more than a full column and a half in the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cat Mike | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

With the start of the second stanza, Penn attempted to carry the attack but was quickly put on the defensive by a concerted Harvard assault. Five tallies were chalked up, as the Crimson passing attack completely bewildered the Red and Blue defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET CONQUERS PENN IN ONE-SIDED CONTEST | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

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