Word: coming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None too optimistic about this evening's game, Hodder believes that he will need considerable more practice to weld his sextet into a smooth working outfit. The Crimson has come a long way since the start of practice, and Hodder maintains that Bill Coleman's team will be hard to stop by the end of the season...
...second question is whether Phi Beta Kappa should god-father the proposition. No one can possibly object that this organization is coming to life, for the intellectual aristocracy sits in a coign of great vantage. But come what may, Phi Beta Kappa should exist as a completely nonpartisan intellectual organization. Whatever the proposed committee may be in theory, by fact and by reputation it will inevitably assume a color and a partisan nature. The issues dealt with will inevitably revolve in political and ethical spheres which should be strange...
Most of the veterans have been shunted off to seats on the bench to make room for a building process for the future, but some of them are apt to break into the lineup in crucial league games if the Sophomores do not come up to expectations. Junior center Homer Peabody is the most valuable letterman, but a pulled knee ligament threatens to keep him out of action for much of the season...
...perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party stand for--"reality," empire, and British hegemony--will have to be swept aside if world union is to come. It will be a tremendous job, but if the men who are trying it now are wiser and more far-sighted than those in the past, they will come just that much closer to it. They must certainly be wise enough to profit by what Lord Halifax's speech shows...
...would give anything to be able to come over and visit Harvard," she continued. "Isn't it silly that I-haven't got the time? But it's true. The next time I'm in Boston I want to visit the whole University...