Word: end
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father and son gradually widens until John finally leaves his ancestral home to go north and work in Detroit as a bank clerk is merely the vehicle for the steady development of an atmosphere, which is obviously the author's chief excuse for writing the book. He accomplishes his end well, however, for the reader is left a real understanding of a class of people in the south which is often written about but seldom presented in such a sympathic and clear form...
With the glamor of a "big game" absent from Cambridge this week-end there is an opportunity to realize that intercollegiate football has no monopoly on the athletic interest of Harvard men during the fall months which the public dedicates to the roaring stadium. When Saturday after Saturday thousands of spectators envelop the chosen game in a sheen of frantic glory, the numerous minor sports go quietly on their own ways asking no share of the ballyhoo which rings from all sides in their ears...
This week-end there is occasion for those undergraduates who find themselves left in Cambridge to do a little exploring on playing fields whose informal air of good sportsmanship is certain to prove an attraction. Harvard's athletic policy has long been established on the principle of the greatest possible number of participants. The men who have discovered the benefits received in such humble places as the lacrosse field, the rifle range, and the soccer field have gone a long way towards answering the charge that Saturday football spectacles are the sine qua non of college life...
Harding, who was nominated by the trustees of the fund, is the first substitute end on the University eleven, and has started several games this year in the absence of the injured J. G. Douglas '30. He has also maintained a Dean's list average in his studies...
...authorities who object to the prevalent undergraduate custom of trooping off for the weekend have obviously not tried to sleep to the Massachusetts avenue obligato of Mack trucks and screaming street car rails. The two nights a week of rural slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming...