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Morals. From Germany the Actors' Theatre has drawn a creaky old satire of reformers and produced it with a fine cast in the high hope that it will divert a metropolitan public already much diverted by public moralists. The play employs the not unfamiliar device of staining the moralist with the very ink which he was bent on blotting from the city...
...newly appointed mentor is not unfamiliar with the duties of head coach, having acted in the same capacity in the spring of 1916. The following year, due to the World War, Harvard for the first time since the inauguration of baseball at the University, was not represented by a team. Mitchell's place was taken by Coach Duffy, also of the Braves, on the resumption of baseball...
...thirteenth of November, 1875. Fifteen men played on a side in athletic shirts and canvas trousers. The crowd of 1500 was large enough to cause comment then, but would scarcely fill a section in the Stadium today. Still, it was a slashing, spirited contest, especially after the Yale players unfamiliar with Harvard rules, grasped the idea of how to tackle. A particularly desperate scrimmage in the third quarter flattened even the ball into a disk of limp rubber. The best of traditions was established by the presence among the spectators of numerous ladies seated decorously in their carriages. Harvard drew...
...necessarily strange and unusual save to the reader. So Mr. Young will go on with encircling and increasing his vocabulary and, let us hope, his good judgment. Perhaps he will be so kind as to let a fellow reader into the secret of understanding strange discourses in unfamiliar terms. For he claims to delight in such...
Finally, it is unreasonable to expect that an organization as large as the Harvard University Band, which numbers among its members many new-comers to Harvard, totally unfamiliar with our songs and with the conduct of the band, could, in three short rehearsals, furnish as complete a program early in the season us at the Princeton and Yale games. Ambrose F. Keeley '27, Director Harvard University Band...