Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather inaccurate and fouls were frequent in both scrimmages but Coach Wachter expressed himself as well pleased with the showing made by all the teams. Last evening at the Freshman Gymnasium a blackboard talk was given to the entire squad. At this meeting formations and plays were explained in detail and the new rules carefully gone over. Coach Wachter is endeavoring to teach the men to avoid, as much as possible, fouling...
...seems to simmer down to the fact that in present-day college athletics and in football particularly, the winning of victories has become more of a business than a sport. The detail in management; the minuteness of coaching necessary to the success of an eleven; the sometimes exaggerated publicity; secret practice, and the huge crowds attending the late season games have encroached on the old-time aim of college sport, which was the development of the undergraduate. The pendulum seems to have swung about as far that way as it will go. It is to be hoped that the swing...
...your reporter has taken too optimistic an attitude with regard to present business conditions as presented by Mr. Babson. It is true, Mr. Babson did give "ten reasons in support of his statement that the business outlook in the United States is favorable," which you rightly set forth in detail. However, in spite of these ten indications pointing toward prosperity, Mr. Babson believes that "the stage is set for a period of business depression" which will hit the retail dealer hardest of all. To prevent this depression a change of attitude is absolutely essential...
...individual ignorance of the men writing the stories. There is a representative of each team in the press box who announces the man with the ball after each play. That these men, who have been watching their teams all year, should make a mistake in such an important detail, shows that there is no dependable means of identification...
...time when every newspaper is printing in its pictorial section pictures of "bolshevik" Italy, portraying in vivid detail seizures of mills and factories by the "red" element, it is comforting to hear from such a reliable source as the Italian Ambassador that conditions are not so drear as they have been painted. Of course the pictures and reports are correct, but the occurrences themselves are fewer and less alarming than the scareheads would seem to indicate; and it is only the frequent and often-repeated publication of these few occurrences that has led to the general impression that Italy...