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...begin with, a new formation for the receipt of a kickoff which resulted in some excellent run-backs. For its running attack the team lined up with an unbalanced line as before, but the old round-the-center shift has gone. The primary formation of the two halfbacks and the fullback in a line parallel to the line of scrimmage suggested Dartmouth and other teams, something very different from former Harvard teams...
Then comes the sudden shift and the direct pass from the center which sets the team in motion with greater speed than the old method as executed in recent years. With their three or four formations into which they can shift alternately at the discretion of the quarterback and with the very short interval of time between the shift and the passing of the ball by the center, the defensive team has little opportunity to prepare itself and is in danger of surprise...
...most radical shift which the first line has had took place yesterday when Adie was definitely converted from a center into an end. Adie has been given several trials on the wing, but it was not known that he would be stationed there permanently until yesterday. His shift will make Macomber's performance at center almost certain...
...thought devoted to the guide, its dominant note of sincerity, the discreet emphasis laid on the fact that the little critiques are the expressions only of single individuals, may, however, be given short shift by many adult readers. Imagine undergraduates assuming to serve as critics of their teachers! The idea, if it could even have been conceived a generation ago, would have been regarded as wholly reprehensible. And to tell the truth, there is something reprehensible about it. The path to wisdom is seldom shortened by an assumption that at twenty years of ago one has reached the goal already...
Brenda was going to have another child. She could no longer bolster Mattocks with her spiritual strength. He must shift for himself. He did: shifted to town, curled up in despair and died. Brenda and her husband go out of the story drawn closer than ever through having had to examine their philosophies?Tristram's easy-going "all's-well-with-the-world," Brenda's aloof "live-and-let-live". In village and vicarage, where intolerant stupidity sprouts as prickly and impenetrable as a monkey-puzzle (cactus) tree, the blow-flies scavenge as of yore...