Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are also some statements which Mr. Hutchins makes which are not true. He declares that an athlete may be led to believe that whatever is done on the field, including slugging, is "done for the sake of alma mater," that the "habits of fair play" may be acquired as easily from studying as from sports. The slugging is a typical case of Hutchins' exaggeration. As for the fair play, there is no question that the kind of pressure afforded by big-time football is an education for everyone concerned, from the regulars and the scrubs and the band...
...starting to work early, Stahl will be able to look over his material and got a line on what needs to be done, and especially to see what each pitcher has or needs to have developed. This session will last until Christmas vacation for three to four afternoons a week. The first general call for players will not be issued until after mid-year examinations...
...handled many a market operation for the Vans, it presently submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...
Since 1925, 70-year-old William Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post...
...extent of destruction done by the hurricane has brought about the decision that the Amherst campus grading and terracing are to be started again and are to be fully completed this time, as they were not originally. A committee of the Alumni Council, headed by Richardson Pratt '15, is planning to raise the entire sum necessary for the completion of this project...