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...defend his position impregnably, but time and again he took out both his own man and a player on the secondary defense giving remarkable interference as a guard on end runs. His down-the-field work will be remembered by last Saturday's episode of Bingham being "thrown by Gilman and Dadmun...
...field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again. Yale again kicks and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field. Yale kicks off. Seamans runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop kick. The ball sails squarely for the post, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just...
...injured in an automobile accident yesterday morning. He was on his way out to College from his home in Boston, and near Central square another car came out of a side street and in trying to avoid it, the chaffeur ran into a lamp-post. Professor Wendell was thrown through the windshield, suffering cuts about the head and a general shaking up. The injuries are not serious, however, and Professor Wendell will be able to go on as usual with his classes in a few days...
When a student passes from the sheltering portals of a preparatory school to the freer life of a university he is thrown for the first time on his own responsibility. At school his every action is prescribed and regulated by older men and he is carefully shielded from the temptations of the outer world. At college, however, he must choose for himself when to study and when to play, and he must work out his own problems of discipline and conduct...
...time of such political and social commotion as the present, Professor Bliss Perry's book on Carlyle, the great social preacher, is especially timely. Carlyle's peculiar style has thrown up a barrier, increasing in formidableness as time passes, to discourage the hasty reader. And, as Professor Perry remarks, the modern reader is content with picked-up ideas and "facile guesses" regarding the personality of this great Victorian figure. The real flexibility of Carlyle's use of language, "the rich accent of Annandale," is concealed for many by his vagaries and eccentricities. Moreover, the violence and unpersuasiveness of his method...