Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week prior to the Colgate game, the Princeton coaching staff laid special emphasis on covering punts, interference, and forward passing. The first two phases were well-handled by the Princeton eleven, but the forward passing was a disappointment.
"By presenting new plays, the Harvard Dramatic Club does a great deal towards removing the emphasis that institutions of learning are bound, by the nature of things, to place on events of the past.
"If college teachers could once by their teaching kindle the great mass of students to the actualities of life, if they could bring to them greater understanding of the demand the years will lay upon them, greater sense-of the privileges by which the struggle of life is postponed for...
"The time has long since passed when the part played by Athletics in the life drama of the undergraduate can be ignored. Professor Kennedy discusses this tremendous interest under four heads--first, the place which sport ought to occupy in the college program; second, how it ought to be directed...
"If college teachers could once by their teaching kindle the great mass of students to the actualities of life," he says, "if they could bring to them greater sense of the privilege by which for them the struggle of life is postponed until they have had opportunity to prepare for...