Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...handicap of rain, and for his substantial ground gaining, Bob Peters won the honor of being the only Princeton representative. Gaining a total of ten votes, he nosed out such close contenders as Hank Mazur, who scored Army's lone touchdown against Harvard, and Erni Savignano, Brown's spark-plug...
Webb Morse of the Christian Science Monitor: "I favor the Cantabs by a 13 point margin. The Crimson defense is good enough to break up the Yale attack. With good weather, Spreyer should spark Harvard to victory...
Harvard has been a rugged defensive unit all year but had to wait until the Penn game to touch off the offensive spark. Tireless individual effort by the players and painstaking attention to minute details by Dick Harlow have been the reasons for this great transformation of the Harvard team. Coach Harlow has another fine late-November eleven which lacks only a couple of climax runners of becoming the best team he ever had at Harvard...
...received wide praise. To me it seems a weak-kneed, rather precious imitation of Haydn in modern harmonics. Probably it is somewhat satiric; still it is a good example of the failure of modern composers to recreate in twentieth-century dress the music of the eighteenth century. The spark which lit up the formal pattern of a classical symphony cannot be recaptured merely by reproducing the exteriors. Something else, whatever it is that makes any music great, must also be there...
Dick Harlow's valuable and versatile end, who in the last few games has not been satisfied with acting as the spark plug of the Crimson team, but has taken over the duties of magnate, carburetor and generator in the bargain, suffered a muscle bruise in the Princeton mud Saturday. The injury is not serious but will be just enough to keep him out of crucial workouts for the Penn struggle...