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...neutral territory. Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised of the situation and built such a lofty fence in a strategic position that thenceforth the Yale scouts saw nothing but an expanse of pine boards...
Though the scene is said to be on Madison Avenue, the audience wasn't fooled for one moment. They knew it was Mount Vernon Street. And everything contributed to their convictions. Even the maid spoke Bostonese. But, of course, the fact that the accents were not convincing, would be quite pardonable if the play had been...
...week-end party aboard the Mayflower, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge took Count and Countess Asaka (Japanese nobility incognito), Ambassador and Mme. Tsuneo Matsu-daira, Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg, and Mr. Charles MacVeagh, down the Potomac to Mount Vernon...
...Palestine, Professor James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago laid the plans for exploring Armageddon, battlefield of humanity described in the Apocalypse. The site is a mounded plain on a mountain shelf overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon, near Mount Carmel. Funds were furnished by John D. Rockefeller...
...glory to the men who staged this comeback. May their mettle again mount to the occasion when Harvard meets Yale next Saturday, and may the same success crown their efforts...