Word: coded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago at Syracuse University in a speech on basketball, I recommended that representatives of all independent teams and representatives of professional leagues, and colleges, universities and amateurs sit in conference to discuss rules, and draft one code of basketball rules to be sent broadcast throughout the country in order to eradicate the lack of uniformity and irregularities that exist in the game today. If this is done basketball will be put on a firmer basis, and as football, baseball, golf, tennis and other sports, become standardized...
...nine-year experience with the Hart, Schaffner & Marx arrangement, most of the fundamental issues which arise in the employer-employee relation have been met and adjudicated. These typical cases have revealed principles which may some day help to form an established code of governing rules for industry and supplanting the present method of competitive bargaining and conflicts settled by economic strength...
...have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that the gentleman's code applied only to the players. Prolonged "boos" have greeted official decisions; cheers have been heard when a team was penalized. It was evident that these persons were not of the University, which is an easy way of dismissing the subject. But is not the University somewhat responsible for the conditions...
...inconceivable that a man who has been found guilty, as the Congressman says, "of the most fiendish cruelties" should be allowed to go free, when soldiers who committed what in comparison to the offenses of "Hard-Boiled Smith" were "trivial infractions of the military code" are still serving, time at Leavenworth. According to newspaper reports, Smith has broken parole. If this is true, surely this transgressor against the spirit of fair play should be again apprehended and placed where the perpetrator of such deeds as he committed belongs...
...Cornell students shall look upon acts of deceit with just as much disfavor as do students of the University of Virginia, for instance. There is no difference in the type of student, at the two universities certainly. Our American democratic spirit grants the First Families of Virginia no higher code of honor than the Last Families of Podunk. We are merely conscious of a different viewpoint...