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Coach Watcher regards tonight's contest as a mere stepping-stone toward the crucial Yale test next Tuesday at New Haven. He wishes, however, to increase the team's victory momentum rather than halt it, so he will send his strongest-line-up into the fray. The general feeling now is that if the University five can maintain the pace set Wednesday in routing the Green it will be able to silence the Bulldog's growl in his very den. Tonight's task is to down the St. Francis team in stride without losing sight of the imminent objective contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST.FRANCIS LAST OBSTACLE ON ROAD TO NEW HAVEN | 3/7/1924 | See Source »

...advisability of the plan, and that at present the University authorities have no intention of following suit. He considers it practical only if a player is suffering from cuts of bruises on the head, and does not expect the Tigers to find the plan feasible after a through test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS USE HOCKEY HEADGEAR; I TOO ROUGH FOR BARE HEADS | 3/7/1924 | See Source »

America. D. W. Griffith has given the Revolutionary War its official camera test. It screens well-in particular the midnight ride of Paul Revere. In view of this producer's Birth of a Nation and the Klansmen's ride, it might be expected that he would express the drum beats of a rising nation with hoof beats; they charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 3, 1924 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...knows that the best security of good and faithful work is that the judge must state his reasons. And the judge himself knows how often first impressions and even decisions passed in the conference room meet their Waterloo when the judge finds 'they won't write.' The essential test is adequate statement of grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Task of Sisyphus | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...last big test prior to its clash with Yale, the Freshman five were defeated 27 to 18 by a powerful Exeter quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXETER BASKETBALL TEAM DOWNS FRESHMAN QUINTET | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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