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...attribute the loss of so many games the past 12 years. To acknowledge that Yale's prestige in Football is the direct result of Mr. Camp's wonderful knowledge of the game, combined with his rare ability to lustre his ideas and to make finished players out of raw material is only to give that gentleman the credit he deserves. Harvard has undoubtedly had some very brilliant players, but, from some cause or other, no all-round players, with thorough knowledge of the game and ability to compete successfully with Mr. Camp in coaching. When the graduates were asked...
...very general feeling of prosperity now experienced by U. S. business, the sugar trade has not shared. Raw sugar has recently dropped to 2? a pound-the lowest price since 1922. Prophecies of a further decline in raw sugar to l¾? a pound are common, since a huge increase in the supply is overhanging the markets...
...three days prior to each game, allow the players no food whatever. This will heighten their natural animal ferocity. On the other days feed them sparingly on raw meat, which should be thrown to them, so they will have to fight for it among themselves...
...Some 300,000 natives who never before had any employment, except carrying great baskets on their heads, will be hired. A force of Americans will be sent over to superintend the job; food, household furniture and everything else will be sent after them. And in five or six years raw rubber will begin to pour out of where the jungle was?because $100,000,000 will have been sunk in making Liberia useful...
Strange wastrel days. . . . tragic, cruel days when he struggled with a life that was bitter and raw...