Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dishonest practices used to be common enough in college athletics. Hired townies buttressed baseball teams, rowdy-dows won football contests for $5 per. All-around athletes who could hardly read a newspaper were put through college at the expense of the Alumni Association and given high grades in English and Sacred Studies. When the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association was formed, such chicanery was already fast vanishing. Last week, with the deepest humiliation, Yale University notified Harvard that there could be no freshman crew race this year. Six members of the Yale freshman eight had cheated in examinations at their training...
...survey, which comes from a firm of professional drive managers, concludes thus: "We are impressed pretty, strongly with the fact that these charts show twice as many alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation...
...need developed. In consequence of the wider diffusion of prosperity the number of students doubled and redoubled; there was insistent need of more professors, more material equipment. Institutions already struggling desperately to maintain themselves were in danger of being submerged. One after another they appealed to their alumni, to love's of learning in general. A summary of sixty-eight such drives shows total receipts of $149,391,142 no inconsiderable sum. Harvard leads the list with $13,931,780. Princeton is second with $9,902,904 and is closely followed by Northwestern, Hampton-Tuskegee and the University of Chicago...
...jump of 26 points, the largest of any week this season, in the Crimson batting average is the result of two victories won by scores of 10 to 1 and 5 to 1 over Princeton and the Alumni. The individual members of the nine profited in their batting averages as greatly as did the team average. The present figure of .280 is the highest the team has had so far this year. The helding mark was also on the rise, only two errors being recorded in the two games played in the past week, the team average jumping three points...
Chase, diminutive utility infielder for the Crimson, broke into the shortstop position on Wednesday against the Alumni when Sullivan was detained by the team with the bat. His mark of .385 has not been maintained through examinations. He got two solid bingles in three trips to the plate and his average so profited that he now leads a long series of games since he has figured only in seven games this year, but it is nevertheless the highest on the Crimson roster. Burns, ousted from the lead by the prowess of Chase, is further entrenched with a rise of twelve...