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...effected an excellent production of an extremely uneven book. Whatever the play may have been in the original German, it has become in English a curious mixture of heavy-handed love-scenes and theatrical seduction--scenes alternating with bits as deft and sophisticated as you could wish. A string of witty lines follows theatrics in the style of the old snowstorm melodrama...
Twice backed up to within four yards of their own goal line, the Harvard eleven showed a stubborn resistance which was so completely shattered last week, and thereby indicated that, in spite of several second and third string substitutions, it still had at its command the power to withstand attack when not rattled. As conspicuous as this new line defense was, a forward-pass defense, which has not been seen in the Stadium this year, rendered the Holy Cross passes incomplete 18 times, and five times prevented the Crusaders from scoring...
...then, the first-string backs can improve this coming week in proportion to the improvement shown last week by the team as a whole, and a well-ordered and sufficiently keen enough eleven is gleaned from the material that is left by a strenuous season. Harvard may face Yale next Saturday on the upgrade...
Anyone, he claims, "can memorize a string of numbers. Except I do it quicker. I do it in a flash. Everything is in a flash with me. When I demonstrated for Einstein he said a second is for me what an hour is for someone else. He said the second stretches in my mind and is a long time in which I can work. There is nothing different about my mind, except for numbers. For numbers I am a genius...
After a short talk by the coaches on the weak points in the Harvard defensive and scoring machinery against Brown's well-regulated attacks, the first string went through a mild blocking and tackling practice. While B looked on, team A went through some new plays...