Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...analysis of Walter Camp's All-American teams since 1889 gives Yale the leading place, 80 Yale men having been chosen to date. The University is second with 69, while Princeton and Pennsylvania follow with 51 and 34, respectively. It is interesting to note that up to 1895 only Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania were represented on these teams and that in three of these years Harvard, Yale and Princeton furnished the entire line-up. In 1895 one man from a smaller college was chosen. Since 1899 the big eastern universities have not ruled supreme in the choice of teams...
Perhaps the argument was too locally applied. A correspondent of the Nation wishes to extend the conclusion "to cover the question what American men in general talk about." This writer complains that at gatherings of college men he is entertained only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That" on football, and is told that that is the only interest college men have in common. A business man avers that among undergraduates "the range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the other would...
...condition which greatly needs improvement. One must not forget, for example, the special interest clubs of the University, the well- attended extra lectures and the various publications. Certainly no separate indictment of Harvard or even of Memorial diners is in order. Much less can it be charged that the American college, because of its shortcomings, fails in use fulness; that its graduates are not above the average in intellectual interests...
Three players on this season's University football team have been assigned places on Walter Camp's All-American eleven. E. W. Mahan '16 was naturally assigned to fullback, as he has been on almost all the theoretical teams for the past two years. R. S. C. King '16 shares the halfback positions with Macomber of Illinois. The only University lineman to get a berth is J. A. Gilman, Jr., '17, the 1916 captain...
...slovenly use of English by college men in this country has long been a ground for unfavorable comparison of American with English universities. It has also been a cause of general complaint against college men. The person who has not a university training almost invariably judges the man who has by his ability to express himself, orally and in writing. It is surprising to many business men how few recent college graduates can write even clear and cogent business letters. The work of Mr. Hersey in the Business School has shown that even men who have added to their undergraduate...