Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discontinued this year its old custom of picking an All-Stadium team. The CRIMSON also deplores the habit of sporting writers to make college players the butt of their gibes and witticisms. This practice is decidedly pernicious. Because a player makes an error in a football game, his career in life may be ruined by branding him before the public as "the man who dropped the punt...
...daily newspapers forthwith issued the copy which they also had prepared well in advance, blaring the Horatio-Alger-like career of Chairman Jones. "From rags to riches," said the New York World. Two of the gum-chewers' sheets published friezes of photographs which told the story of this man's extraordinary career so lucidly that even the most illiterate readers could not fail to comprehend. They showed Mr. Jones as a bright-cheeked office boy, starting his business career at the age of 15. During this period he received $5 a week. They showed him at the shaving age when...
...collegiate game. Thus Dr. Harry A. March, sponsor of the Giants declares that "everything is done to prevent an amateur from commercializing his ability while he still belongs to an amateur organization. Everything is done to keep down gambling. I also believe that with the incentive of a professional career ahead, college players will constantly better the standard of their game. The professional game will also bring the small college player his due. Take the case of Parnell of Allegheny, who though one of our greatest players, never got his measure of glory. Why the colleges complain...
...profession does not adequately test him for any definite achievement in his line. . . . I am acquainted with no more essentially sluggish, improvident, resourceless, unambitious, and time-wasting creature than the ordinary professor of forty, nor anything more empty of adventure or hope than the future years of his career, daily to be occupied in matching his wits with the flat modiocrity of successive generations of adolescent C-students, and patiently waiting till the death of some better man, hardy and long-lived, allows him to slip into a larger pair of old shoes...
However, such a means, unbiased by any tradition in social ethics, seems a trifle artificial. Of course there are those who judge a college career only by its effect upon their knowledge of the social order. But not all are possessed of such an understanding. Many must remain unmoved by academic problems unless those problems convince them by their own vitality...