owever different the methods of the
two head coaches. The Harvard team during the last two weeks had been
put on a course of desultory reading from Bede to the closing of the
theatres by the Puritans in 1642, while Yale had concentrated on the
Elizabethan dramatists and signal practice.

"Harvard won the toss, and Captain Hartley led off with a question on
the mediaeval prototypes of Thomas More's 'Utopia.' Brooks of Yale made
a snappy reply, and by a dashing string of three questions on the
authorship of 'Ralph Roister-Doister,' the sources of Chaucer's
'Nonne's Preeste's Tale,' and the exact site of the Globe Theatre,
carried the fight into the enemy's territory. But Harvard held well,
and the contest was a fairly even one for twenty minutes. There was an
anxious moment towards the end, when Gosse, for Harvard, muffed on the
date of the first production of 'The Tempest,' but before Yale could
frame another question the whistle blew.

"In the second half, Yale perceptibly weakened. It still showed
brilliant flashes of attack, but its defence was poor, especially
against Brooks's smashing questions on the Italian influences in
Milton's shorter poems. Harvard made its principal gains against
Burckhardt, who simply could not solve Winship's posers from Ben Jonson
and Beaumont and Fletcher. The Yale coaches finally took him out and
sent in Skinner, the best Elizabethan on the scrub team, but it was too
late to save the day. There were rumours after the game that Burckhardt
had broken training after the Princeton contest by going on a three
days' canoe trip up the Merrimac. That, however, does not detract from
the glory of Harvard's magnificent triumph."

_From the Boston "Herald" of October 9, 1937:_

"William J. Burns and Douglas Mitchell, sophomores at Harvard, were
arrested last night for creating a disturbance in the dining-room of
the Mayflower Hotel by letting loose a South American baboon with a
pack of firecrackers attached to its tail. When arraigned before
Magistrate Conroy, they declared that they were celebrating Harvard's
Early English victory over Yale, and were discharged."

_From the Yale "News" of June 12, 1940:_

"In the presence of twenty thousand spectators, including the President
of the United States, the greater part of his Cabinet, and several
foreign ambassado