Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less paper wasted on them the better. Perhaps some day the Harvard cheering section will get kind of peeved, peel off their coats, roll up their sleeves and march over to those wooden stands and settle once and for all the question as to whose Stadium this is anyway. V. SALSMAN '23, PROV...
Princeton. A general impression of snobbishness and "Brooksy suits." Ugh! Very repulsive to me in its "typeishness." Anyway, I never have liked New Jersey...
...class to be seen from an inspection of the records at the Children's Court. The fact remains, however, that the real source of evidence on the social conditions in New York is in the Police Department books which are with-held, and are said to be hopelessly inaccurate anyway. Of course if neither side will accept the truthfulness of existing figures, it is a waste of time to try and determine how matters really stand...
...chief argument's against numbering the players seem to be: first, that the spectators, are not sufficiently interested to look up the names that go with the numbers: second, that the strongest proponents of the system are the newspaper men, who should know the players anyway and are not qualified to write about the game if they do not; third, that having the players numbered would give away to scouts from other colleges the details of essential plays...
...apathy of the coaches and players toward thus increasing the pleasure of the spectators is as incomprehensible as it is real. They sometimes go so far as to advance the defence that the audience does not care who makes the play or that the public knows all the players anyway. Yet anyone who has watched a game from the stands will emphatically deny the first statement; and he also knows how difficult it is to recognize a person when he is effectively disguised in a uniform and headguard. As for the argument that numbering will enable scouts to learn...