Word: championships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual convention held on Saturday at the Copley Square Hotel, the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association voted to hold the annual track and field championship meet at the new Technology Field on May 21 and 22. The games have been held in the Stadium for the past two years and it was offered to the convention again, but it was decided that wherever practicable the meet should be held upon the field of one of its own members rather than upon neutral territory. The program of events will remain the same as last year...
...program, consisting of six track and three field events, will be open to team entries only and awards will be based on the collective scoring of the men representing each college and university. This method of awarding the championship on team merit rather than individual merit as is usually done in winter meets was approved by all the officers of the association as the best way to produce results at this time of the year. It is under such conditions that a team of average men in good condition will wrest a championship away from a team...
...Therefore the graduates do not have to bring to bear on the undergraduate the constant pressure for championship teams that is one of the results of alumni loyalty in this country. And (this want especially to emphasize) if the loliaty of college students in American ceases to express itself in an intense desire to see their college athletic team win, and consequently in giving the services to organization for athletic success it may probably cease as well to find expression in the singularly generous giving to the material upbuilding of the educational plants of this country and in the constant...
...national more effectively than any other university. For admittedly these two do so already. He does not create graduate councils and employ publicity agents, because there is no necessity for such things. (As with the English aristocracy universities their position is established and unassesable). He does not demand championship football teams, because his university does not have to have championship teams to go on drawing the 'right sort students...
...Therefore the graduates do not have to bring to bear on the undergraduate the constant pressure for championship teams that is one of the results of alumni loyalty in this country. And (this want especially to emphasize) if the loliaty of college students in American ceases to express itself in an intense desire to see their college athletic team win, and consequently in giving the services to organization for athletic success it may probably cease as well to find expression in the singularly generous giving to the material upbuilding of the educational plants of this country and in the constant...