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...trouble lies deeper than individuals", says the Yale Alumni Weekly in regard to Yale football, "and is essentially the lack of a wining system". In the popular mind of the world's greatest demagogue, the sporting writer of today, "system" is a word considered indigenous only to Harvard, yet most of the winning Harvard plays found their origin in the old "Yale system" which won its namos with customary regularity for over a decade. Most of the vertabrae in the backbone of this system were made up of the imperial Yale triumvirate of captain, coach, and Walter Camp. But this...
When Yale was losing a system, Harvard was gaining one to which it has clung with vigorous tenacity ever since. But in the eyes of the sporting critics it is now Harvard's turn to crumble. The edict comes from the press writers of the metropolis that the "Haughton system" is obsolete and must be completely revamped if it is to hold its place among the football powers. The old deceptive style of playing; when the right halfback carried the ball around the right end and the opposing team thought the left halfback was carrying it around the left...
Next Tuesday, at a 6 o'clock dinner, Dr. John Mez will speak on "German Reparations, French Debts, and American Obligations". Dr. Mez is a well known writer and lecturer on foreign affairs, and came into considerable prominence' as the Correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. He was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Mannheim from 1908 to 1910. When David Starr Jordan made a tour of Europe for the International Conciliation movement, he accompanied him as his secretary and co-lecturer. In 1913 he acted as organizer and interpreter for Norman Angell in his lecture tour in Germany...
Today at 1 o'clock Mr. Norman Thomas will speak on "Social Ownership". Mr. Thomas has been secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and a prominent writer in the world of advanced thought. He was for a time editor of "The World Tomorrow" and has also been a contributing editor of "The Nation". He is now Chairman of the Executive Committee of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...that of the complacent football fan who yells, "Punk Judgment!" after a play has failed. He feels called upon to resist an implied attack on the Graduate Treasurer and remarks that, "we can safely trust even his snap guesses in preference to other people's well-laid plans." The writer reads into the CRIMSON's recent editorial insinuations of "graft" and concludes by putting a chip on the shoulder of the Athletic Association with a distinct invitation to the CRIMSON to knock...