Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigations reveal that managers of motion picture theatres have no method of determining the effectiveness of the lighting, said Mr. Henry, who urged the framing of a special code of illumination for motion picture auditoriums, following a scientific study of the problem...
...York Society for the Suppression of Vice, represented that he had received complaints against the Graphic's front pages from people with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...
...Western Conference has adopted what the Michigan Daily terms a "rigid code of ethics" on the recruiting of high school athletes. The provisions in brief condemn "scholarships, loans, and remissions of tuition of the basis of athletic skill," the endeavor of athletic directors and coaches "by initiation of correspondence, by distribution of literature, and by personal interviews of their own seeking to recruit athletics," and the previous promise of employment to prospective athletes "by the athletic department of the university...
...this "rigid" code distinguishes between illegitimate and so-called legitimate recruiting. Among the methods listed under the latter heading are "banquets to prospective athletes, rushing at interscholastic meets, talks by coaches at high school banquets, the writing by athletic directors to high schools for the names of athletes in the senior class in order to send them information about the university...
...directors of the Western Conference are possessed of an admirable sense of sportsmanship. They have made a game out of proselytizing. Given, a high school halfback and ten college coaches. Object: who gets the halfback? Rules: the above. As the new code says, "any resort to improper methods is poor sportsmanship...