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...Tiger jinx again followed a fighting Harvard football team on Saturday. The Crimson eleven, seldom emerging from its own territory, was completely stopped by a fast, hard line and in turn out-rushed and out-scored by the elusive Princeton backs. The game was marked by rough, aggressive play and the University squad left the field, weakened by the temporary loss at least of three of its best men, and defeated...
Behind the vast banking enterprises of today stand figures of whom the public knows little, and cares less. They seldom appear individually even in their old role of archvillain, Publisher Hearst and ilk having grown discouraged by repeated demonstrations of Capitalistic probity. As the technique of their profession has become sensitized, bankers themselves have been increasingly obliged to hide their personal lights beneath institutional bushels...
...quickly came to be perceived that Mr. Stephenson's nominees seldom lost. He conducted campaigns with just the right combination of lavishness and precision; the Mayors of three important Indiana cities looked on him with great respect and the members of legislative committees called at his home before the day's session to see which bills were to be passed. To his legislators he gave orders rather than suggestions, but when he wrote to his Mayors he was careful to phrase his wishes in terms of a larger and collective power, the will of the Klan...
...powerful Andover soccer team handed a 2-0 defeat to the Freshmen Saturday afternoon. The first-year men were outplayed more completely than the score would indicate. Their team play was ragged, the halfbacks seldom being able to keep the ball out of their own territory so that their forward line might have an opportunity to advance...
...gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum bonum of college life, intellectual inspiration...