Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For years past the ten thousand boys of Allston have considered the Stadium their playground on Saturdays. The mornings have been devoted to playing hide and seek with the revered officers of the law. In the afternoons, as the crowd pours through the gates to witness the over-emphasis of...
The decision seems to be based on an underestimation of the importance the student mind places in athletics and an over estimation of the difficulty of the Exeter entrance requirements which are supposed to provide the necessary check on athletes. If such be the case, it may be expected that...
It is there that unintelligent emphasis lies. The football system itself is not at fault. The trouble is with the application of it to adolescent needs.
Frazier Hunt's article in the current "Cosmopolitan" merely reiterates once more the cry of over-emphasis of college athletics. The unbalanced predominance of sports in American universities is a favorite subject for the criticism of a small army of alarmists who are forever throwing their hands up in horror...
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, a year or so ago, "The Yale Daily News" issued a special number in which eminent graduates of Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded...