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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great works have been wrought in the hills of New Hampshire since the day when Elzear Wheelock made his way up the Connecticut river to found Dartmouth College. He was enthusiastic in his desire to start a school for the education of the Indians in the ways of God and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICANIZATION | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Following this there were two tie games and another Dartmouth victory and then Harvard again assumed the upper arm and remained unbeaten until 1922. Since then however, the Green has four games chalked up in the credit column against Harvard's two.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Has Triumphed Over Big Green 25 Times in Series Which Began in 1884--Goal-Line Uncrossed for 14 Years | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Here I first came upon that directness which some people called brutality but which was merely the courageous kindness of sincerity. Direct speech, at any cost, was an article of his faith. He was as ready to receive it as to give it. At a meeting of graduate students, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Beginning the series exactly 45 years ago Harvard was supreme for 16 years in a row. The team from Hanover scored nary a point for the first 14 years of that Crimson dynasty. It was not until 1901 that Harvard's goal line was crossed by the Green, when they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Has Triumphed Over Big Green 25 Times in Series Which Began in 1884--Goal-Line Uncrossed for 14 Years | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Yet the Carnegie report was of intercollegiate and, to a certain extent, of public importance. Two other items played up during the past week were not. The three-column "Stunt Riot at Harvard" headline of a Boston paper last Thursday led a story that deliberately over-emphasized one incident of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

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