Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...
...present agitation over the football situation has an amusing counterpart in the excltement concerning the game more than 60 years ago. Interclass football was abolished by order of the Faculty in 1860, due to the roughness in the annual Sophomore-Freshman game; and a pompous funeral of "Football Fightum" was held. An elaborate account of the funeral is given in a scrapbook kept by C. C. Read '64, and is reprinted below...
...football which has changed the game from a sport to a business, and a public utility into the bargain. The real issue is whether American colleges shall remain colleges in the older meaning of the word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends to become the main show. Good sense calls loudly for a return to proper relations between football and scholarship at Harvard...
...Swerling's article suggests the possibility of the establishment in Boston by Mr. MacFadden of a counterpart of his Gotham publication. No one would hesitate, assuredly, to advise him to undertake this project at once. There are many hundreds, yes, thousands, of potential purchasers of a Boston "Graphic" in the Hub and its environs. Its success would be immediate...
...appears that England has an intellectual counterpart of Apostle Macfadden in Capt. Anthony M. Ludovici. A lecturer and conversationalist, one-time secretary to the late Sculptor Auguste Rodin, married, 43, Captain Ludovici is ostensibly an opponent of British Feminism,* but his book? dwells upon the physiological aspects of the argument with all the insistence and most of the exaggeration of a typical Macfadden editorial in breastfeeding, pride in body and "the happy congress of man and wife...