Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A holdup, three bombings occupied the attention of Chicago police last week. Hold-Up. Into the gay, smoke-filled ball room of the Palm Gardens road house came six young men with familiar faces. It was their fifth visit. Dutifully the swaying guests lined up along a wall, dutifully handed...
Scared Football Players. At Tuscaloosa, Ala. (not to be confused with Tuskeegee, Ala., site of the Tuskeegee Institute for Negroes), the University of Alabama football squads were practicing last week on a rainy, soggy field. Football is their very serious occupation, for every university student pays $13.50 for the support...
The Author. Ernest Hemingway's father, a doctor of Oak Park, Ill., last year committed suicide while in ill health. He saw little of his son, for the novelist, following, athletic U.. S. schooldays, Wardays on the Italian front during which he was severely wounded, has lived in...
Few students of the subject will quarrel with his description of the disease. Predominant in every American college and university at present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity...
But how to cure the malady, how to loosen the grip of the alumni on college policy and vest it again in the little company of scholars who are supposed to lead the undergraduate toward the light? On this point the Chief Justice makes no suggestions. But possibly the remedy...