Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Wogan stated that he plans to build up two teams of almost equal skill, training enough god substitutes to avoid the situation of last year, when one man's inability to play put the University out of the running for the intercollegiate title...
...flippant parade of personal prejudice similar to the recently printed work of Mr. Summerfield Baldwin, one could treat it other than seriously. Dr. Kirkpatrick is not, in any sense, flippant. Nor does he show any but an abstract prejudice against the states quo in university administration. Carefully, soundly, he build a theoretical case with which one can heartily agree...
...college merely a pleasant round of social and sporting events to the exclusion of learning but the suggested cures themselves show taints of evil. Now that the cry is against undergraduate tendency to specialization, Mr. Wells will not find unanimous applause for the graduate school system he would build in its stead. To end intercollegiate athletics would certainly keep the serious as well as the light-minded from college. A school can suffer from an overdose of learning just as surely as from too highly emphasized athletics. There is more than one way to kill either...
Coach Harry Cowles is well pleased with the material on hand this year. He has a strong nucleus around which to build a championship team...
...buying or leasing land that he finds his greatest difficulty. Realtors and mortgage underwriters dash at his office in Manhattan with flashing descriptions of their land values. Let Mr. Statler promise to build a hotel anywhere from Trenton to Tacoma. they will see that it is financed. They do not realize that he finances his new hotels from the operating profits of his old, and that, if he were to go to public financing, humanitarian that he is, he would want to be certain that not only were promoters prosperous and bondholders satisfied, but also that preferred shareholders received their...