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Eliot never penetrated beyond Jonathan Edwards' 20-yard line, as the Yale team made a second period touchdown stand up all the way for a 7-0 triumph. The Elephants stayed on the ground for virtually the entire game, but met a stiff Edwards forward wall...
Divinity manager Peers Brewer claimed that the Elis will give the squad stiff competition. "I think it can be safely said that Yale is using ancient Greek mystery rites to win the favor of the gods, whereas we tend to stick to a more stable formula," he said...
...memory of O'Neill is that he was good-looking, very nervous, extremely impatient with 47, and anxious to get down to live in Greenwich Village... The first [of two plays O'Neill wrote during the year] was inconspicuous, and the latter was labored and stiff. His worst fault, I think, was an ineptitude at dialogue, except when the speakers were raving drunk or profane...
...documented survey of the reasons for declining admission, candidates cited factors ranging from long traveling distances to stiff scholastic requirements. Despite an acceptance rate of 70 per cent, highest among comparable colleges in the east, 426 men declined admission...
...Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...