Word: automaton
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the referee blows the final whistle of the contest in the Stadium this afternoon the little red-sweatered automaton whose frantic motions and resounding voice have became familiar to a generation of football followers will have completed his thirteenth successive season as score-keeper. "Eddie" Morris is his name, and in his time he has signalled to the score-board the story of every University game played in the Stadium. In the course of the last two decades he has communicated to the spectators, the telegraphers, and the press reporters on the roof of the Stadium the details...
...there is another point in which the undergraduate should examine his conscience before commencing reform. Has the Faculty Adviser been given a fair chance? Here the initiative plainly rests with the student. If he prefers to reduce the Faculty Adviser to the position of an automaton, it is not for the latter to dispute the choice. Doubtless he would rather become a counselor and friend, a constant link between the University and the individual student, as he was designed to be, but it certainly should not be a part of his duty to make personal calls on students, or otherwise...