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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This intangible quality of inspiration has a great deal to do with winning athletic contests. Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS PREDICTS YALE WIN, GIVES HARVARD CHANCE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

A contemporary writer has been going around to find if the rah-rah stuff is fading out of college sports. He finds that it is. Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS PREDICTS YALE WIN, GIVES HARVARD CHANCE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

Among the archaisms that grow green each year in the kindly air of Harvard none is more strange than that curious one--the Commencement part. The custom of having a few of the leaders in the graduating class address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLAMATION | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

There would be no better way for Harvard men to form an opinion on the merits of the House Plan than to check off the proposed details of operation with the avowed principles behind the Plan. To do this facts are necessary. What the relations of the Master and undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN TO HARD PAN | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

We can think of no more confusing job for a conscientious correspondent than to be in Boston covering Harvard University. Perfectly reliable news stories emanate from its classic shades one day only to be denied the next. There was no reason the news given out by officials of the Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Same Old Song | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

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