Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will pass from Harvard in the throes of its mid-year period, going as silently as they came, those vague and shadowy Dickensian figures who receive their degrees a half a year before or a half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates...
...they make resolutions, and are the better for it; and break them and are the worse for it. It is wearying to be platitudinous on this subject but the only way not to be trite, and to beat the humorist is to make no resolutions, and then stick to them...
Star puckmen of former days will again don ice togs and test their stick-wielding skill this evening when alumni sextets from the University and from Dartmouth will clash on the Arena ice at 8 o'clock. The contest tonight, the proceeds from which will go to the Olympic skating fund will be played by practically the same men who met on the ice in an alumni game between Harvard and Dartmouth two years...
...greatly; he would marry her some day. He would marry her after he had attained some measure of his magnificent success. For the stranger had said to him: "Go on, young fellow. You are doing fine. The good things in life are not very far off. Avoid those who stick in the mud and cultivate those who are going somewhere." There was plenty of time to marry Millie...
Sharp steel cut deep in cloudy ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. Hooked stick is shorter this year, limited to 53 inches, instead of 60. Overtime allowance has been cut from 20 to 10 minutes. Abolished are penalty free shots. There are other minor changes. Otherwise the professional hockey season opened last week to frantic crowds in U. S. and Canadian cities much as it closed last April when Ottawa won the world's championship from Boston...