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Coach Fisher said in part: "I am frank to admit that I never saw more pep in a Harvard team than in the practice last Monday. It proved that the team looks ahead rather than behind. Enthusiasm has grown during this week. The team has been defeated twice, by two crackerjack teams, but has no reason to be ashamed...
Coach Roper started the 1922 season with only four veterans: Captain Dickenson, Cleaves, Baker, and Sniveley; and with seemingly very little experienced new material. The situation appeared very discouraging. Yet daily the Tiger eleven has grown stronger, crushing every opponent, and finally showing a great streak of brilliance two weeks ago against the powerful Chicago aggregation. Last week when Swarthmore invaded the Palmer Stadium, the regulars were kept on the sidelines and the substitute eleven did not look so impressive. But the calibre of the Tiger eleven which will take the field against the Crimson today may be judged...
...looked like an eighteenth century French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech. "We are all getting a little tired of these panegyrics," continues Professor Hart, "and this indiscriminate praise of everybody born before the year 1800. As to the men in the Revolution, there has grown up hero worship and almost a process of deification...
...have seen babies bashfully refuse to perform before grown-ups, in the same way, even when cookies are offered as reward; sucking their fingers, smiling at their elders, and scraping the ground with one foot is an excess of embarrassed shyness...
...Bureau of Standards in Washington, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Stratton has been connected with the Bureau of Standards for the past twenty-five years, and it is due to his scientific ability and skill as an organizer that it has grown from next to nothing into a great organization of world importance...