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...first two years of this regimen were marked by four straight victories over Yale, in an advancing progression, with scores ranging from 3-0 to 13-1. Two more consecutive triumphs followed in 1922, but in the following year, the first of a long, ambitious schedule, Bulldog turned and bit back, and refused to be downed without the bitterest struggle that a Harvard-Yale hockey series has ever produced...
William Robert ("Will") Wood of Lafayette, Ind., is a small-town-lawyer and professional politician, old-style. Aged 67, a bit withered, inclined to testiness and taciturnity, he has served his party as chairman of the committee that is charged with keeping Congress Republican. Now he will succeed the late, snow-polled Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois as chairman of the potent Appropriations Committee (House end of the so-called Pork Barrel...
...centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity. For those who find a vestigeal interest in the intellectual slowly reviving this morning, the following lectures are recommended...
MANHATTAN COLLEGE displayed a nice bit of sportsmanship as a result of the victory over C. C. N. Y. at the Lewisohn Stadium. This game was not only an upset in the anticipated football results but a more serious upset to the C. C. N. Y. young men who were bold enough to offer from
...been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish it for occasions when the ointment of glorification is spread a bit too thick...