Word: ending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When one of these institutions starts to make up a football schedule, the sole aim seems to be to so arrange games that the team may work up to its maximum strength at the end of the season when it is expected to meet one or two strong competitors. The schedule is arranged so that in the early part of the season teams are played which are not real competitors at all, and cannot be expected to win except by reason of some extraordinary circumstance...
...There are one or two competitions which are almost traditional and which have a right to a reserved place at the end of the season. Such competitions embrace the Yale-Harvard game and the Pennsylvania Cornell Thanksgiving Day game. There are numerous others among the smaller colleges, but none among the big institutions that I know...
...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
These competitions are unusually short this year, lasting only nine weeks instead of from twelve to fourteen weeks. They will end the last week in May or the first week in June...
These newly elected officers will serve during the year 1918-19. They do not, however, assume office till April 9, while the treasurer will not take up his duties till June 1, the end of the present fiscal year...