Word: selectively
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Next in order of merit we would select "The Blue and the Grey," a story of the Civil War. That familiar piece of fiction which has for its theme the young southern officer, carrying despatches amid impossible difficulties, the Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual...
Until mid-years, practice will be voluntary. After that, regular scheduled sessions will be held, each man playing five matches a week. Then, in April, Captain L. A. de Turenne '21 will select the six members of the team which will go on the Southern trip. His choices will be based on the results of the trial matches played during the two weeks previous to the trip...
Four leading Eastern college elevens were dropped from the select group of unbeaten teams as a result of Saturday's games. Those to fall from their lofty perches near the top rungs of the football ladder were Cornell, Brown, Georgetown and Washington and Jefferson. The University and Princeton having avoided the abyss of defeat by playing a tie game, are two among the seven who can still display clean slates. The others are Penn State, Pittsburg, Wesleyan, Stevens Tech and Boston College...
Football races in various sections of the country are narrowing down to the select few who have been tried in the balance and found not wanting. As yet, only one team has cinched the title of its territory. The University of Oklahoma rose to the position of unchallenged superiority in the Missouri Valley Conference last Saturday by defeating Kansas 21 to 9. Oklahoma has only two games remaining on its schedule and it is not likely that it will lose either of them...
...filled, not by Galvin, but Guernsey. Into and Walker played tackles and the usual pair, Cutler and Dilworth, were at the ends. The backfield combination of Murphy, Kempton, Aldrich, and either Jordan or Frank Kelley, seems to be the most formidable that Coach Jones has been able to select...