Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleges are drawn together in athletic contests, and that curtailment will bring sincere regret to all Princeton and Harvard men. But it is distinctly for the best, in that it is a definite step toward reducing rather than over-emphasizing the importance of freshman athletic contests between distant colleges...
...hopeful sign, especially when taken by the athletic committees themselves who have it directly in their power to say how often and how far the teams shall or shall not go. The attitude is one of weighing the true value, or rather lack of it, in such distant contests. If more athletic committees could be started along this same path of judging those faraway sport encounters which require an obvious loss of time, of money, and of energy, at their just worth, the problem not only of magnified freshman sports, but also that of over-emphasis on athletics generally, would...
...High, Brookline High, the High School of Commerce, Lowell High, Lynn Classical, Lynn English, Medford High, Newton High, and Rindge Technical School. Class B includes the smaller high schools in Greater Boston, and those coming from a distance. The Class B list has on it 19 schools, the most distant being those from Worcester...
...years. Possibly a series of games to be played in New Haven and Providence on alternate years is planned. The only danger of such a scheme would be that with West Point also building a new stadium and with the likelihood of others being erected in the not too distant future the Athletic Association may find itself confronted with a choice between an embarrassment of away-from-home games and dropping some old and respected friends from the schedule altogether. With this in mind the Board of Control will be very careful of any guarantees made or customs started...
With the first game of its schedule three days distant, the 1927 golf squad is practicing regularly on the course at the Oakley Country Club. The difficulty of reserving this course has complied a reduction in the squad. Dwight Barnum, Robert Bennink, E. D. Cole, R. B. Merriman Jr., Shiras Morris Jr., O. A. Spalding, E. S. Stimpson, Paul Sullivan, and J. A. Vogel, have been retained and will play daily at Oakley...