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Word: weekend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are times in the course of human events when silence is more effective than the written word. Those times, however, are limited. When the football teams of two old and large American universities play each other in such an atmosphere as was evidenced over the last weekend, silence on the part of the college journals is indicative either of supreme callousness or supreme dullness. For no one had to be particularly adroit to realize that there was evident animosity displayed within the Harvard Stadium last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON AND HARVARD | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

...part of the Big Three. Even colleges must retain prestige. And Princeton has derived no little part of hers from the fact that she has long been included in the Big Three. Placing those two facts together, then, one readily understands why such phenomena as those of the last weekend can occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON AND HARVARD | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

...doubt feeling that they are capable of bigger and better things. Therefore the ports visited along the primrose path to higher education an not only opportunities to examine bizarre architectures and to pass off foreign language requirements; they are to be compared with the nocturnal diversions of big game weekends when everything but a desire to submerge dry and musty knowledge in the enjoyments of wine, women and song or at least song--is cast to the winds. And when those winds are of the seven seas the celebrations may last longer than a weekend and may be slightly more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRTY WORK AFLOAT | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Princeton drew first blood in the weekend contests when her soccer team outscored the Crimson booters by a 4 to 0 count on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. This is the second consecutive year that the Crimson representatives have been forced to taste defeat, the score of last year's tilt at Princeton being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS DRAW FIRST BLOOD WITH 4 TO O SOCCER WIN | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

...final decision regarding the eleven men who wear the Crimson jerseys at the start of hostilities over this weekend will not be made until after the scrimmages this week. The first of these scrimmage sessions is listed this afternoon, with the strong team of ineligibles

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY FIT AS TIGER DRILL OPENS | 11/2/1926 | See Source »

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