Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...directly to the establishment of the present type of intercollegiate football. This event was an invasion of the United States by the Rugby football fifteen of McGill University of Montreal. The ambitious young Canadians played only one game at their style of play, but that was at Harvard. The complex, brilliant features of Rugby instantly captured the imagination, and Harvard abandoned its curious code and adopted that of the visitors...
...first teams afield. Among these early aristocrats of the sport are Brown, Dartmouth, Lawrenceville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams. An important feature of the sport which made its advent in the early '80's was signals. Originally these were words and sentences, later single numbers, and finally the complex signal systems that have prevailed for 30 years. A strange occurrence in this time was that Harvard's Faculty unexpectedly abolished football in 1885, and in 1886, as unexpectedly, restored...
...system devised for concentrating and distributing courses in the broad field of college education is well founded, but is necessarily complex and technical. With the consideration of the suggestions of the Student Council by the Faculty and with the co-operation of the students there will be in the future little or no unpleasant misunderstandings of the obscure system of concentration and distribution...
...that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person. Particulars reference is made to football because the play is so strenuous that games cannot be multiplied at will...
...also contended by the affirmative that the class of immigrants that will come to this country if the gates are thrown open will be the Bolshevist class which will make the already complex labor problem more difficult to solve...