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DARTMOUTH HARVARD Stickler g. g. Salmon Stone l.f.b. r.f.b. Stollmeyer Stark r.f.b. l.f.b. Clarke Makepeace l.h.b. r.h.b. Carr Lawrence c.h.b. c.h.b. Barnes Cohen r.h.b. l.h.b. Rudd Schmitz c. c. Kerness Woodbridge l.o.f. r.o.f. Haskel Eastman l.i.f. r.i.f. Danielian Annis r.o.f. l.o.f. Driggs Marx r.i.f. l.i.f. Keefe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SOCCER TEAM COMBATS GREEN TODAY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that none of the Crimson's rivals--except Holy Cross, which because of its double initials presents grave geometric problems--is very difficult to lay out. What, for instance, could be simpler than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRTY MUSIC | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...breezy or pretty confounded dry. As for rattlers, they're where you find 'em. But why worry ? It's a rare thing to hear of anyone getting bit and rarer still to hear of the victim dying. Autos are far more deadly. You're a stickler for the truth, that's the why of this letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...parents. Galahad not only vexed Lance lot but naturally embarrassed him greatly in the early days, before Guinevere's first blind jealousy abated. She would not listen to Lancelot's story, honest as the day, of how on his very first visit to King Pelles, that old stickler's bold-spirited daughter had offered her self to him as wife or mistress, she cared not which, in frank passion for his sombre scars, grace and fortitude; how upon his next visit, when he went reluctantly at his liege's bidding to complain of dusty hay which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...attend school clad in knickerbockers. Twice daily for three weeks Virginia had been sent to the school door, twice daily been viewed with alarm and sent home by officials who were shocked to see her spindly extremities encased separately instead of draped in unison. Mrs. Allen, no stickler for fashion, no crusader for a moral cause, merely clung to her point that Virginia's education should not be interrupted pending the extension of her wardrobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pother | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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