Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propheay the outcome of this year's Yale-Harvard game--in fact to foretell the result of any big football game is a thing I prefer to keep away from, for pre-game smiles can very easily be inurned into tears as the game progresses...
...coach. Harvard is fortunate in having constantly at hand a large number of fine athletes in her graduate schools. If each House were to employ a graduate student as general coach and supervisor of each of its sports, better organization, better training, and greater fairness would, as a usual thing, be secured than if the sports were left entirely under the direction of the undergraduates themselves
...famous jester has completed what promises to be a famous jest, and those upon whom the trick was turned have availed themselves of that grace which is too often overlooked in the heat of an unpleasant moment. To laugh when the joke is on oneself only makes a good thing better...
...Tiger, whom I used to know before the break in relations severed our old friendship, supported two aunts and a grandmother by parlaying his bets against Harvard. It seems to me a tragic thing that these three fine old ladies must now go hungry since the source of their income has been cut off. And the worst of it is that their ordeal is imposed for a matter of petty pride. Princeton, as I understand it, felt that Harvard was too high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary...
...equal footing with the larger universities in teaching. Sentiment, tradition, and college loyalty are factors against which even the most logical arguments can hardly hope to prevail. These intangible feelings alone are a guarantee of the continuance of the small college, and their disbanding may be considered a thing of the dim and distant future...