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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuance of a Boston University dynasty of Methodist clergymen has been the point at issue in a controversy in the Boston Transcript this week over the recent appointment of a Pittsburgh minister as president of the institution...
...Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript: "Harvard and also Yale had better forget their radical changes, as it were, and brace up. Be good losers, for they give every evidence of being poor sports, or the name of fair Harvard and Eli Yale will be dragging down in the dust...
Engaged. Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late Senator, member of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Bureau, onetime Boston Transcript reporter, Harvard graduate; to Miss Emily Sears of Boston...
Certain phenomena recur so regularly and impressively that they become institutions: the Boston Transcript, the equinox, presidential elections, and the Harvard-Yale football game. Just fifty years ago, Harvard and Yale first matched strength and skill against each other on the football field, playing under rules manufactured for the occasion out of the old Rugby game. No one could have foreseen that that game was to initiate the sport, which now sets the whole nation in a frenzy every autumn. Many there are who now believe that the glorification of football has gone too far. But this theoretical question aside...
...Transcript of last night, the following quotation is made from this same report: "College sports should not be so many, nor made so important, as to divert the thoughts, interests, and enthusiasms of the players from the major academic purpose for which they went to Harvard. They should not be inaugurated or maintained for the purpose of entertaining the public or the graduates...