Word: turnly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Distinctly the best contribution is the poem on the opening page, "We are '07." Some metrical skill is employed in the service of an ingenious parody, re-enforced by a clever turn at the end; and the whole has what characterizes the best humor, an underdrift of criticism...
...ways of becoming funny are well illustrated by the two editorials in the current number of the Lampoon. One way is to turn convention into farce and the other to turn it into frank veracity. The first editorial considers how the advice recently asked for from undergraduates about ways of improving courses might be given next time not by A and B men, but by their "alphabetically interior brothren." The second editorial espigates the Freshman, already sore with promiscuous good advice, and warns him not to make his life "a giddy wheel of irresponsibility with its centre...
...University eleven yesterday held its last scrimmage before the Pennsylvania game. With almost all the regular men on the University eleven, it was able in a thirty minute line-up to score only once against a weak second team, and was in turn scored upon. The line charged too high and on the defense was almost powerless. Except in the last four or five minutes, there was an absence of fight so that long gains were impossible. The first twenty minutes of scrimmage practice was secret...
...yards without a single failure to make first down, the defense, throughout the game, was utterly powerless either to analyze or to stop Carlisle's advance with the ball. Double and delayed passes, quarterback runs, straight mass plays through tackle, varied by different wing shift formations, were all in turn, used most successfully in bending back the Harvard line. The one reliable part of the defense was the work of the ends, particularly Bowditch, who spoiled several of Carlisle's plays around the end. Although during the middle of the second half, the University's attack was irresistible, its offense...
...Colwell 3G., scratch, won the 880 yards run, finishing 3 yards ahead of J. F. Henderson '05, who had a handicap of 40 yards. For the first lap and a quarter B. Merrill '06 set the pace, then Henderson took the lead, but was in turn passed by Colwell near the finish...