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...every department of straight football, with the possible exception of punting, Brown was distinctly outclassed in Saturday's game, some cleverly worked trick plays alone preventing Harvard from running up a much larger score. None of the guards back formations or mass plays which Brown tried against the line were able to gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN DEFEATED, 11-0 | 10/23/1899 | See Source »

...books, refused to hand down the copyrights; but retaining them, annually rented out the books so that each year there was paid to him for the privilege of publishing each book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which it is hard to imagine would be perpetrated by any Harvard man who had known how hard men struggle to gain a livelihood here while they are getting their college education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1898 | See Source »

...Scholarship Fund will be in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. John Fox, Jr., will give a brief talk on the southern mountaineer as New England's ally in the Civil War, and will read passages from "The Kentuckians"; "Courtin' on Cutshin'," "Hell fer Sartain," "A Trick o' Trade," "Preachin' on Kingdom Come," "The Passing of Abe Shivers," and "The Message on the Sand." Mrs. May Alden Ward will preside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading by John Fox, Jr. | 2/2/1898 | See Source »

...trick of Trade"; "Preachin' on Kingdom Come"; "The Passing of Abe Shivers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 2/2/1898 | See Source »

...discussion caused by the interruption of the last lecture in English 8 1, a point which has struck me as but little short of ludicrous is the seriousness with which the whole affair has been taken. I can imagine nothing more gratifying to those who played the trick than to see students and instructors gravely discussing the moral aspects of an affair, which, when the worst has been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/28/1898 | See Source »

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