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Last season a jaunty Wildcat aggregation advanced on Cambridge confident of scoring at least once, but it went back to the hills with its tail twisted into knots to the tune of 35-0. This year a team admittedly inferior to the last one is coming to Harvard with no illusions about the task ahead of it, and consequently is more likely to accomplish something...
Reported Reporter Morley: "The President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem...
...accept the estate in payment of a $1,000,000 loan he extended some years ago to his Cousin Baron Rudolf von Guttmann, then "Austria's Coal King," later ruined by the crash of Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8, 1931). Ivar Kreuger and other scamps have incorporated many a wildcat company under the lenient laws of Liechtenstein, kept lenient by shrewd, rich Prince Franz...
...during the middle of last summer that strange rumbles emanating from the Oklahoma oil-fields caught the national ear. At first casually identified as the eruptions of another wildcat oil-well, they were later traced to a new and unique figure who has appeared on the American scene, Alfalfa Bill Murray. The latest of a long line of politicians representing the common people, he possesses the homely manners and pithy wisdom that have become an American tradition...
...Wildcat freshmen, with Quimby 35 yards ahead of the pack, were victorious with 29 points, against 45 for Harvard, 86 for the Big Green, and 88 for M.I.T...