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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...color, the offense failing to click because of lack of team work. Most of the playing was individual with Putnam and Cunningham bearing the burden of it. Garrison, playing his first game at defence also contributed several neat plays. The goalie situation however advanced no farther because the B. U. forwards were practically unable to break through and give Harvard's net-tenders a fair test. Ellis played the first and third periods and Draper relieved him during the second stanza. Both of them had so few opportunities, however, that it seems the first game will not do much towards...
...mean little more than a chance to make up work or sleep. It is the last break before Christmas vacation and the reading period, a sort of preliminary breathing time. Every one is thankful for the relief it offers as a vacation, but thought on the matter goes little farther. But even if the feeling on these festivities is purely negative, there is no actual foundation for the pessimistic belief that Thanksgiving is becoming obscured by modern life. It is not a matter of more or less, but difference in expression...
...proposal of Mr. Snedder provides for a college with no degrees and no entrance examinations, an institution with emphasis on preparation for a vocation. The substance of his objection is that the present educational system affords no place for the purely academic mind and advances the student no farther along the road to the attainment of his vocation...
Many of the customs are in the form of restrictions placed upon the "plebes." There are restrictions in the mess hall, in barracks, and on the campus. In the mess hall a plebe sits at attention while he eats. His eyes may not wander farther than the perimeter of a circle of radius seven inches, whose center is at the center of his plate; and he must see that all of the upperclassmen at his table are properly supplied with food. In barracks a plebe always removes his hat before entering the room of an upperclassman. He is restricted from...
...foresee a speedy end to the world's series. The weather is too cold to continue playing baseball, and I have been asked to step in and finish it before it went any farther. I have therefore decreed that the result of today's game will be; Athletics 7, Cubs...