Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Football, world's most popular sport to watch, will draw 20,000,000 spectators on eight Saturdays this autumn. Seven hundred thousand young men will play it, some for a living, some for an education, some for fun. It will cost the U. S. sports public $30,000,000. Last week football reached the mid-season peak of its most successful year since...
Controversies. Standard subject for gloomy collegiate editorializing for the past ten years has been "overemphasis" of football. This autumn it has received practically no attention. Likewise diminishing is the uproar about the pay that goes, directly or indirectly, to many football players at most U. S. colleges. When Tree-Surgeon Governor Davey of Ohio charged that 13 members of the State University football squad had government jobs, Ohio State officials were surprised only by the Governor's indignation (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Ohio State undergraduates threatened to throw fruit at Governor Davey if he attended the Notre Dame...
...drilled patly on the field whence its exercises were inaudible to reporters in their glass-enclosed press box. Before the game, as has been its custom this season, Notre Dame chose a captain for the day to replace Joseph George Sullivan who was elected last autumn, died last spring...
...does every autumn, the New York Academy of Medicine conducted a notable series of lectures and hospital demonstrations for the benefit of practicing physicians during the past fortnight. The subject this year was "Diseases of the Respiratory Tract," and it provided a compact postgraduate course in all the ailments which attack the respiratory tract from the nostrils to the base of the lungs...
Dexter Keezer arrived at Portland last autumn with his wife and small daughter, solemnly sworn to become no stuffed shirt. Students made his acquaintance during the freshman-sophomore tug of war when the victorious sophomores discovered that one of the "freshmen" they had been dragging through the mud was new President Keezer (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Subsequently "Prex Dex" attracted even more attention by appearing in bright red duck pants. In the winter he could be seen carrying an armful of wood to heat a cold conference room. In the spring he played tennis and fished with his students, shocked...