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...think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags in front of University Hall mean, but if they mean that the young men of Harvard are thirsting for anyone's blood, they ought not to be there. WALTER SILZ...
...desire to see new lands, to break away from those places which his ancestors cleared from the wilderness, then there is no doubt but that, given a due amount of Saxon intelligence and grit, he may make good in foreign countries. But unless he has that restlessness of the blood he would do well to look at the opportunities that lie before him in his own country, where his own tongue is spoken, among people, who are in sympathy with his ideas, and whose ideas he may appreciate...
Seek not to turn all vintages to blood...
...coaching system has found again the drive and power that were once her victorious characteristics. The grit of Yale is universally know; it is in our power on Saturday to make the Harvard fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands. The long roll of the Harvard cheer must convince the team that behind it is a cheering section determined to defeat Yale...
...California and New Mexico avails to keep uppermost in our minds the questions of national honor that we were all willing--or were we willing?--to die for two weeks ago. The human interest of football is unquestioned and unquestionable. It was ever thus among people who had sporting blood in their veins. There were many people in ancient Greece whose patriotism did not prevent them from deeply resenting the intrusion of Leonidas and his battle of Thermopylae into the year 480 B. C., which was one of the years scheduled for the Olympian games. They regarded that...