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...from the direction of the sun are noted it will be patent that the outlying backs were laboring under a fearful disadvantage. Princeton of course recognized all this when she won the toss and elected to impose upon the Crimson the handicap of these factors. What Nassau expected to happen did happen. The Harvard backs found themselves by the adverse conditions, and later, when positions were reversed, the Tigers found themselves in similar plight. But this, of course, offers no alibis for the fumbling of the ball on plays into the line. Both teams committed this fault, without evil effect...
...matter, for not only students, but hundreds of thousands of men who earn their living by travelling, lose a vote enlightened by wider observation of conditions than is possible to their stay-at-home neighbors. But the solution does not lie in permitting them to vote wherever they may happen to be, even for President. The voters of Cambridge will on next Tuesday cast a ballot not for the Presidential nominee, but for an elector pledged to vote for a certain Presidential nominee, and for electors at large from the state. The elector chosen for the district in which...
...prophesying that this is going to happen. But it may happen. And we continue talking about pacifism, talking about politics, talking about national defence, always talking, always bluffing, playing up to the sluggishness, indifference or ignorance of the mass, or boosting short-cut enthusiasms. Nothing is done. Every minute calls for action. And the fact is that each year one War Department sinks deeper and deeper into a mire of incompetence and chaos...
...Harvard in the past two seasons made a great deal of the "threat game" from kick formation, Mahan lying back. Mahan threatened three things, two of which he could do well and one brilliantly--punt, forward pass and run. No eleven could be certain what was to happen, and Mahan made the most of the doubtful state of mind. Harvard's interference in the case of a run would pile the tackle all over himself, knock the end galley west and generally take care of the back who was coming up to relieve the two over-pressed defenders...
...less immediate value to the average graduate than the knowledge of how to sharpen a knife or to sew on a button," Dr. Moritz writes. "But has an exercise in fundamental thought processes they are invaluable to every individual, no matter what his ultimate work in life may happen...