Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Traveler, in reporting one of Harvard's recent cross-country meets, printed this brief paragraph: "Boston University, with 67 points, defeated Providence and Harvard in a triangular meet yesterday. . . . The Crimson was last with 23 points...
What makes that story so regrettable is not that it is totally wrong--in cross-country the team with the least points wins--but that it probably made little or no impression on the Traveler's readers. The American sports fan is brought up in a society where the person or team with the most takes the laurels, whether it be in dollars, runs, goals, or points. Why should the fan be expected to realize that the Crimson's 23 points were worth more than...
...Cross-country as a team competition is run on an antiquated system of scoring which not only deceives the average fan, but is also a psychological drawback to the average runner. Consider first, the system as it is recognized by the NCAA...
Against Brown last week, ten varsity runners crossed the line before the first Brown runner. Under the present system, the Crimson won 15-50, a cross-country "slaughter." Yet, there must have been fans and writers who thought it was Brown which did the butchering. To prevent sports editors from making the same mistake that the Traveler writer did, the Associated Press makes a notation after every cross-country score, "Low points...
...Toynbee, all the "higher religions," i.e., Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, are simply separate ways to the City of God. Toynbee sees the prophets of other religions as precursors of Christ, and their sufferings "Stations of the Cross in anticipation of the Crucifixion." But he does not explicitly accept Christ's divinity. Toynbee also sees Christianity as the "climax of a continuous upward movement of spiritual progress" and thinks that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future...