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Inability to push the ball over when within striking distance and a persistent tendency to fumble at critical moments proved the undoing of the Freshmen in Saturday's contest with the light Worcester Academy team, when they were defeated 10-7. In the second period the yearlings rushed from the middle of the field to their opponents' three-yard line in six plays, then lost the ball on downs; while a fumble in the last quarter was responsible for the winning touchdown. The entire game was loosely played and marred by numerous penalties...
...convention leaders can push it through, Lodge's stand on the League of Nations as summed up in his keynote speech and backed by the speech of Chauncey M. Depew, former senator from New York, will be adopted as a campaign issue. Opposition to the convention leaders will be in the main from the liberal group on one hand and the Johnson group on the other. Indeed, many delegates, objecting to the reactionary tone of Depew and Lodge, stood up in their seats and shouted for Beveridge to speak. In response, Lodge stated that he would present him tomorrow...
...Dartmouth defeated Tufts 6 to 5 in a loosely played game here this afternoon which was called in the sixeh to allow the Dartmouth nine to catch a train. Neither twirler was effective, both teams hitting freely. But the Green bunched its hits where they were needed to push across the runs...
...this direction two dangers to democracy have grown up from the imperious necessities of war. One is the tendency which in certain quarters has been cultivated to push our Government toward the form of an autocracy resting on a plebiscite, and thus to the suppression of the legislative branch, which intervenes under our system between the representatives of the people and the powers of the Executive thereby created. We had an example of such a system in the government established by the third Napoleon in the middle of the last century. It can only result, when carried...
...palmiest days before the war. The people have determined to resurrect their country with such an energy that it drives them to labor ten to fourteen hours a day. Moreover, the Germany policy is to large degree unchanged. The war has taught her one great lesson to push toward her goal with less boasting and more common-sense. At the same time the fires of anarchy all over the world are bursting into flames and disturbances are rising into chaos...