Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who has taken History 1 knows Peter the Great of Russia, and has labeled him a fine old fellow who went West, pushing against the tide of the Drang Nach Ostne, and came back to make his subjects shave their beards, build a navy, and become generally enlightened...
...MacPhail of Dartmouth, the Big Green captain sets forth his views of the Harvard and Yale teams as they appeared on successive Saturdays against Dartmouth. He expects Yale to win but belives that there is a narrow chance for a fighting Crimson team to stem the powerful Blue tide...
...story of the Harvard-Yale football series is the tale of the ebb and flood of two great tides of victory, broken only by occasional pauses. From 1876 to 1908, Yale was riding on the crest of the wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...
...imitators, has written a sketch of life at his alma mater for a current magazine, College Humor,--but the name has no bearing on his article. For it is not a humorous article, nor does it have that mixture of sharpness and sentiment which marked the time when "the tide of war rolled up the sands where Princeton played." He writes not now as a very recent graduate, but from the distance of over a decade; not from the inside, but as an outsider wondering what the inside, is like now, and throwing over the past all the pathos...
General Smuts had a no less difficult task, for the tide of public opinion was running fast, fast enough to promise civil war. A Boer himself, he is yet a keen, sincere imperialist, believing that the manifest destiny of the Union lies in membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...