Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remainder of the letter deals with other subjects. If I wrote immediately to Mr. Barton, as I believe that I did, my exultation was premature. Another surprise was in store for me. So soon after the first letter that even now its promptness is unintelligible, I received a second one:-- North-East Harbor, Maine August...
...haven't bet any money on the game, and I haven't any ideas as to who will win. Even 14 I had I wouldn't publish them now; I'd wait until after I was safely home from the dance...
...Carnegie Foundation report. To be sure, the columnists and editorial writers generally concurred in the what-of-it attitude merited by much of this report of conditions prevalent months or years ago; but the treatment as news is, after all, what makes the impression of the story, and even conservative papers badly exaggerated its significance...
...problem of amateurism regarding both college and non-college athletics has been so hotly discussed of recent years that no situation even remotely connected with it can escape the searchlights of publicity. The extraordinary organization of college athletics, the amounts of money involved, and the quasi-public character of modern college games have given rise to a complicated machinery of control which would have never been necessary had athletics enjoyed a less prominent position in education. The exhaustive report of the Carnegie Foundation is but another monument to the complexity of the amateur problem...
...these days of highly organized sport it is necessary to avoid even the suspicion of evil, and the H. A. A. has wisely concluded to get out of what has come to be looked upon as shady business. Whether it has been altogether wise to place the management of the concessions in the hands of the College Employment Office is another matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose...