Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal way to stage the intercollegiate quarter-mile event would be on a course without a bend, but such a plan is impracticable. The only scheme of conducting the event in lanes is fair to the competitors and yet not entirely satisfactory because the man-to-man element is diminished by the staggered starting marks. So long as the race is conducted under present conditions there is bound to be some jockeying, but I think it is to the credit of the I.C.A.A.A.A. competitors that the championship races down through the years have been fought in clean, manly fashion...
There was simple fact in Mr. Rogers' assertion that U. S. universities- he named Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton - discriminate against Jews in accepting matriculants. Polite evasion by those institutions notwithstanding-except in Columbia's case - Jewish undergraduates form an element in the undergraduate bodies which, if it has not occasioned official discrimination, is a subject for much restless discussion and action among Gentile undergraduates, and this constitutes, for the Jews, discrimination of a most definite sort-exclusion from clubs, preference in athletics, elections, etc. It has seemed to many Gentiles high time that the Jews, with...
While Cambridge worries over the British Strike the British can worry about Cambridge. For not even the communities of culture, the lares of learning are free from this element of discord. Harvard is upon the verge of a strike...
...somewhat baffling to find the American Association of University Professors accusing the game of football as a disturbing element in itself to a proper sense of perspective. We blame public over-emphasis for any such detrimental effect; but the pedagogic critics would cut the game into such minute particles that no good would be derived whatsoever from participation...
...Princeton University, "Dick" Cleveland figured as campus critic, as reformer. Ardent Wilson Democrat, he followed in his hero's footsteps by attacking the upperclass-men's club system. He associated himself with the so-called "great unwashed" (the socially unassimilated element of the student body) and refused the many club invitations that were addressed to him by virtue of his personality, attainments and appearance, which was quite the reverse of "unwashed," he being a tall blond shot-putter cast in a noble mold. After the failure of his "revolution" he contented himself with a running public commentary on life...