Word: big
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...should be made here. Two schedules which have caused considerable trouble have been practically eliminated. Hereafter the golf team and the tennis team must hold their intercollegiate championships before College opens in the fall instead of the first week of the term as formerly. This is a big improvement and causes a large reduction in the absences from Cambridge...
...rivals but is concerned as well in the number of men that actively engage in the various sports and reap the benefit of vigorous athletic exercise in competition within the University. This does not imply any diminution of effort in striving to compete successfully with your neighbor in the big contests of the year; it does imply, however, an attempt to make athletics more a regular part of the daily occupation of a student by providing athletic exercise within the limits of his skill and strength. This is the kind of exercise he enjoys and which perhaps can be most...
...drags too much with street detail, and the entrance of Myrtle gives this scene its one false note. But these are tiny specks upon a wonderfully effective stage sun. Mrs. Fiske's production as well as her performance at the Hackett will go down into theatrical history as a big event...
Previous to the Carlisle football game, a notice was published in the CRIMSON by the Student Council in reference to cutting on the days of the big games. It was stated that on the corresponding Saturday of last year 161 men were absent from their 12 o'clock appointments and on the day of the Dartmouth game last year there were 228 men cut the last hour in the morning. Here was one of the so-called evils of intercollegiate athletics, and in particular intercollegiate football, and it happened to be one of the first to be dealt with...
...prime objections to intercollegiate athletics which is periodically brought rather forcibly to our attention is the demoralizing effect of a big game, particularly when played away from home, on the following few days with reference to academic pursuits. This is a justifiable complaint and one which the Council proposes to meet if possible with a better state of affairs this year in regard to attendance at least. The Council is working in the right direction and its notices should command attention...