Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, if tradition is to be carried forward, he will embark on a long introductory talk. He will tell his jittering audience that the toughest job that faces a Varsity Manager all year is to pick the Sophomore winner, and the choice this year has been exceptionally difficult. He will end by handing out a letter to each of the quartet which will inform them of the outcome of the competition...
...there was savage reaction to normalcy. Talk about the war was taboo. The teams were big and tough. There were fellows on them who had gone through more than the average college "man". When they started to roll they didn't like to be stopped. Eddie Casey came back to college and continued where he'd left off, and Harvard won 10-3. It was considered by Harvard grads only one aspect of the return to normalcy. Casey scored the touchdown, Jom Braden kicked a field goal from the 53-yard line! (The goal posts were on the goal line...
...story was told by a man whose veracity is unquestionable. He told me a fellow employee saw two men, one of them a youth, fighting. The witness was en route from work and didn't stop, thinking it only a drunken brawl. I am going to talk to the man late today and think there may be a definite break in the case...
Regular meetings of the workers, who are placed by Mr. Short, are held in his house. These meetings are taken up with a brief religious service, a discussion of the work, and a talk on the control of juvenile delinquency...
...belief, however, that a game of scrub football, a fight-talk, and a square meal are sufficient to make an unruly boy into a useful citizen is wide of the mark. Intelligent leadership by the Harvard man comes first. Example, psychology, religion are but a few approaches to consider in this extremely difficult problem. It is a challenge to the so-called "insulated" student...