Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Boston Post: "Most of them (college papers), in the youthful ardor of their literary souls, allow that something must be done to 'deflate the exaggerated emphasis on college football'. And perhaps some thing should be."
Two weeks have elapsed since the CRIMSON offered its proposals for reducing the over-emphasis of college football--sufficient time to allow for a very widespread discussion of the problem.
Meanwhile, the metropolitan papers have not been silent. Their editorial columns have reflected various points of view. Believing that Harvard students will be interested to know how the outside world regards the movement in which Harvard has taken so large a part, the CRIMSON reprints in these columns striking excerpts...
The Syracuse (N. Y.) Post-Standard: "The great expense of athletics causes concern in many colleges. . . . The Harvard Crimson regrets the emphasis placed on football. Inasmuch as the curtailing of football is the curtailing of the chief producer of revenue in college athletics, the Crimson advocates the endowment of athletics...
The Providence (R. I.) News: "We shall not trust very strongly in Harvard's leadership of the cause (to reduce over-emphasis of football) until after a season when the Cambridge men shall have defeated Princeton by twenty and Yale by forty points."