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Zantzinger, Eli captain, stands head and shoulder above his fellow-booters. From his position at center half, he is a potent factor in all phases of the Yale play. Douglas, Bulldog goal guard, is another important cog in the Eli machine. Tomorrow will be his fourth clash against the Crimson, and he is expected to put up the same airtight defense which has characterized his other starts...
...Miller, 200-pound sprinter who hits the line and runs the ends equally well. He is an important cog in the Crimson offense...
...household machinery was already in motion, however, and a faithful cog, the seamstress, dragged him out alive. St. Peter philosophically readjusted himself to live out an anticlimax...
...comes the Union, to throw open its doors tonight; to display, not its wares, but its place as a cog in the University's machinery. Time was, and not so very far back, when the Union's deficits ran so high and its popularity so low, that those who held to Major Higginson's ideal almost despaired. All that has changed in the last few years. The Union is now beginning to be what its donor wanted it to be, an active center of University life and common club of all Harvard...
...chief complaint, however, against Dr. Brinton is that he perpetuates, although in quotation marks, the myth of the "Oxford tutorial system". Until I reached this country I was not aware that I was a cog of any such imposing machine. I had imagined hitherto that I was living and working in an academic and therefore respectable anarchy, in which tutors and pupils were at the mercy of each others' whims and weaknesses--a situation which engenders self-reliance if nothing else. But in America I have been asked to formulate methods and recite the Tutorial Code and Catechism...