Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dabbed at his coat amid a shower of fizzing champagne droplets. "I christen thee New York!" cried Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, and laughed because she had flung the champagne bottle with too much violence. Simultaneously two bands blared Deutschland Ueber Alles and The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Freshman football team will face the Holy Cross Freshman eleven this afternoon at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field With the exception of Devens, former Groton School star, who will be unable to take his place in the backfield due to an injury, Coach E. L. Casey '19 will have his strongest line-up on the field from the opening whistle...
...Crosby '28, last season's star halfback who failed to top the scholastic hurdles this fall was responsible for the initial score of the scrubs. Intercepting a pass on his own 20-yard line, the fleet Junior back dashed 40 yards before he was downed...
Last year when the Crimson made its stalwart defense of sanity in college football against the jibes of news writers and the cries of "sour grapes" issuing from that cavity, supposedly the native habitat of vox populi, there were those who believed that a desire for the star had afflicted one journalistic moth. Today in the pleasant glow which is a part of a well earned victory in any human activity the CRIMSON remains possessed of exactly the same viewpoint. Moderation in all things, including undergraduate athletics, is still a justifiable belief...
...moth completely unable to approach the star. Class teams this year are effecting what they have hitherto failed to bring about; the whole emphasis of the athletic director and those who are working with him is toward effectiveness tempered with sanity. When the Dartmouth published its editorial on mass meetings the same spirit was expressed. The less hysteria attached to football, the better. So, as in many other varieties of human interest, the truth of the matter seems to be that clarity begins at home. If the larger colleges of the East can maintain sobriety and sense in their athletic...