Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Science Monitor, like many another thoughtful organ of public opinion, is greatly concerned for the nation's educational facilities. The policy of permanent limitation of enrollment at Dartmouth and Williams, and the recently announced preference of Yale for the sons of Eli, have provoked this Boston journal to come out openly for the education of the masses against all schemes to educate classes. "Education," they say, "Will never become too general; it will never be made too available...
Advance predictions give Eli by far the best of the returning material. The seventy-odd candidates for the Blue nine will find only two positions left vacant by graduation, those of Mallory behind the bat and of Captain O'Hearn at first base. The pitching force is especially strong with Captain Pond, Ashburn, and Scott from last year's teams. Practically the entire 1927 team has reported this year...
...statement of Mr. A. E. Wiggam, prominent biologist of New York, to the effect that the race of college men is dying off, is true, Harvard will have to look for another rival to take the place of Old Eli. Yale University authorities have recently announced that admission to the University is to be given to sons and grandsons of alumni in preference to other applicants whose marks in the admission examinations may be higher...
...Living Room of the Union has been obtained for the occasion and Moynanan's orchestra will furnish the music. The mass meeting will follow the smoker and is planned as a rally for the undefeated hockey team before its crucial test with the Eli Freshmen...
Probably it started in football. Back in the nineties some chauvinistic Eli declared that his team contained the eleven greatest players, in the country. Then Walter Camp caught the idea, and now his All-American football team is a national institution. But the passion for "all-stars" has spread far beyond the confines of athletics alone; picking the five best this and the ten best that has become the favorite occupation of the intelligentsia. Periodicals are flooded with lists innumerable of the five greatest Americans, the ten greatest novels, and Vanity Fair has even drawn up a list...