Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today were the be-all and the end-all the CRIMSON should be tempted to say, "Hence Loathed Melancholy..", and banish with a word its fears of darkest midnight born. For today is worth a deal of football. Stripped of all else today will witness a game worth much in itself. And to it will be added that accompanying virtue which comes but once a year, a wholesale association with the members of Yale University. The CRIMSON takes great pleasure in welcoming the entire Yale body to Cambridge and wishes it all the enjoyment and benefit that the occasion commands...
Today we have the Game, that light which hides at times under the bushel of events, only to burn with undimmed lustre when the last man, woman, and child is drawn to Stadium or Bowl. A game, by all the word implies, includes elements of chance and presupposes the desire to win. Games are played to the won, which has nothing at all to do with the effect of victory or defeat. After the game the competition is over, and the content for superiority, not the goal, is its reward. Over a long period of years Harvard and Yale have...
Whether Harvard men really are wet or not I cannot venture to say because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point...
Strawn pointed out that one section of the article in the typewritten text of his speech which stated, "At their best, lawyers are of just about as much value to society as an army of cross-word puzzle fans; at their all too frequent worst, they are a deadly drug on social progress...
Saturday's encounter with Yale may may not be the last football game of the season in the Stadium, according to word received last night that Dartmouth may play Georgetown in the Allston horseshoo on November 26 for the benefit of the sufferers in the recent New England floods...