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Sirs: There was a young man named Hill; Who at betting acquired a thrill, 'Till he found that he may-when wrong- have to pay, Thanks to TIME & Subscribers-the bill...
This editorial expression is not an attack upon the men who compose the varsity squad. We realize fully what a thrill it is to them to be singled out as gridiron representatives of the East. The men themselves are as clean a group of players and gentlemen as any college can boast about. But it is not a question of personalities so much as it is a question of principle...
...solemn, nearsighted little German with a genius for laboratory detection made an international sensation by announcing that he had isolated the thin, curved bacillus which causes tuberculosis. Eight years later he sent another thrill around the world by telling about a substance, tuberculin, which he thought would destroy the bacillus, cure its human victims. But black days were ahead. Despite the other bacteriological triumphs of this onetime country doctor, it saddened the rest of Robert Koch's life when his tuberculin not only failed to cure consumptives but killed a good many of them in the attempt...
...most satisfactory thrill I ever got out of the game was the year Vic Kennard beat Yale with his drop kick. After Kennard booted the goal, we couldn't advance farther up the field than our own 20-yard line and Yale was constantly threatening to score. With one minute left to play and the Elis seemingly certain to score, Sprague of Harvard got off a punt that went over the Yale quarterback's head and carried 80 yards down the field. With so little time left, Yale couldn't possibly score, and the game was ours...
...football fans who have been nauseated by the prevailing type of gridiron films, because it combines a credible plot with a more than vivid sketch of a real football game. The crowd, the mud--oh, that mud--and the boisterous enthusiasm contribute to climax the picture with a thrill. One might well offer the management of the theatre that, in order to provide atmosphere it put its renowned cooling system into operation and require the patrons to wear their overcoats...