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...game. This Medieval hocus-pocus known as "Getting Behind the Team," is being left behind in favor of an attitude which, in itself, may prove the most effective balance wheel to the sport. The undergraduates to whom I have spoken no longer regard their football teams as something akin to the defenders of the Grail, but rather as an adjunct to the university, put there for their entertainment on Saturday afternoons, and somewhat in the same category as the tennis courts, the swimming pool and the golf course...
...Politicians of the Harding-Coolidge era (1921-29) the phrase "Dollar Wheat" was the sorriest raven-croak of agricultural depression. It suggested unpaid mortgages, political revolts, elections lost. When in July, 1923, wheat dropped to 96^ per bu. there was something akin to panic in Republican Washington, with wild talk that a Republican could not be elected President the following year...
...have become the criterion of success in the modern game, a college which has supplied graduates to teach others in her own image, and finally a college which is as truly representative of the Middle West as Yale is of the East. Such a college is Notre Dame, peculiarly akin to us in the spirit of football...
...little fact precious to ship operators was reported last week by Western Reserve University's Professor John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, shellfish which attach themselves to ship hulls and thereby impede speed, have a sense akin to the sense of smell which makes them recoil from certain chemicals. Professor Visscher's intention is to mix a chemical of disagreeable, repellent smell into the hull paint, thus prevent barnacles clinging...
This mollified those Socialists who took it to mean that Mackintosh of Glasgow, by a method akin to famed reductio ad absurdum, was making it possible for Catholics in his archdiocese to vote for any party because their religion divorces them from...