Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday afternoon, with the Harvard football team poised for a try at the hieing point, a crescendo of "block that kick" swept over one side of the stadium. The only element of surprise in this tradition of footballmania was that the vocal effort came from men, themselves undergraduates at Harvard. Add to this the fact that the small colorful team from William and Mary was cheered consistently throughout the game by the University spectators, that on one occasion the referee was roundly hissed when he called a penalty against the Southerners at a rather crucial point, and the display offers...
...reasons for the continued existence of this element of the training are varied. For one thing it serves to bring the men together where they will be free from worry and cares while they are eating. The coaches are assured that the boys are having good food and plenty of it. They do not have to skimp themselves because their allowance is nearly exhausted. Regularly is important. The training table assures a regular meal hour for all the men. This is important in making certain that all players will have had time to digest their food before the practice hour...
...necessary practice, while the small colleges have a fairer chance of scoring, by not having to face a succession of fresh players put into the game in numerous substitutions. The general employment of this scheme would be an important step toward the goal of introducing a sporting element into what tends to be a commercial enterprise...
Keystone of the national Democratic structure is the party's organization in New York State. Line of cleavage of the State organization is between Tammany Hall, the New York City organization, and a more elevated element at present headed by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For months the local Republicans have been bombarding New York City's Tammany administration with charges which culminated in the indictment of Magistrate George F. Ewald, alleged to have bought his judgeship. Observers last week began wondering if the bombardment had started a crack in the national Democratic Keystone...
...take a favorable stand on branchbanking came with the report of Rudolf S. Hecht, a first citizen of New Orleans, famed as President of HiberniaBank & Trust Co. and nationally famed as chair-man of A. B. A.'s economic policy committee. In Banker Hecht's stand there was an element of irony. Long has he been a stout defender of unit banking. In making his report he said: "I want to make it clear that at heart I still hold the same views concerning our unit banking system. . . . I am as much as ever opposed to the creation...