Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football games no doubt had a laudable purpose in view; but their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players at Harvard was for the benefit of the onlooker, but what good are the figures...
This dream of a Utopia of comparative silence between midnight and the first noise rumbling of the milk wagons at the break of drawn is probably impossible to achieve--but it is a pleasant dream for hose few precious, hard-gleaned moments of sleep...
Coach Cannell stated after the practice that his team will have to work hard this week, but that he is sure it will be in fine shape for the game...
Right now the House Plan seems to be getting everybody a lot of fun. The day that the News doesn't run a Communication about it is a rainy day indeed, and it is hard to find a time at the Elizabethan Club when somebody isn't saying just what he thinks on the matter...
...powerful Worcester Academy eleven downed the Harvard Freshmen in Worcester Saturday to the tune of 13 to 0, in a hard fought contest for the schoolboys' first victory over a Freshman team in several years...