Word: juggernauts
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...devoted to absolute rest and quiet, the CRIMSON ball team has set aside today for the purpose, and has accordingly scheduled a contest with the Phi Beta Kappa nine for this afternoon. Weary with intellectual toil, the scholars will creep to Soldiers Field in time to meet the journalistic juggernaut at about 3.30 o'clock. Partisans of the superlative students say that they will show a lot of inside baseball; but this does not discourage the CRIMSON. Past experience shows that Phi Beta Kappa baseball is usually so far inside that it can hardly be recognized as baseball...
There is an old saying, "It's always darkest before dawn." Once upon a time this may have been quoted by some optimistic undergraduate. But after so many phantoms of false morning in the days of Harvard athletics, after so many years of Juggernaut-like sacrifice on the part of the players; after an humble but ceaseless endeavor by all undergraduates to nourish in their midst a situation, maimed, tethered and hamstrung, all those interested in sport are by this last absurdity fairly roused into sitting up and taking notice. The only apparent opportunity to express one's sentiments...