Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...candidate for a team wants to get into the big game, and when the final contest turns into a struggle with some preparatory school or service organization, the whole cause for training seems to him wasted. From the observer's point of view, the informal system has failed even more dismally. The support of the undergraduates has been ridiculously weak, and interest in every form has decidedly lagged...
...large part of its time; the military drill is far more important and can not be curtailed. We must decide just how many hours of practice the teams shall be allowed, and these practice hours must be regularly adhered to in order to have the universities meet on even terms. Such minor details can be arranged without difficulty, and it will be a happy day in Cambridge when a "big, blue team" once more jogs on to Soldiers Field...
Ultimately the money will come in; it always does, for we have a habit of coming through finally in everything we undertake, but the problem is to raise that sum and do it now. It ought to be unnecessary to have to send collectors around to the delinquents, but even that torture may have to be resorted to unless something radical occurs. We have to get that missing $4,000 in to Phillips Brooks House immediately, or at least let them know why we have not paid. We do not want to get the "scrap of paper" attitude toward pledges...
...only men who are in the R. O. T. C. or who have been rejected for enlistment in the Army or Navy will be allowed to play on the University team. This eligibility ruling will be in accord with that at Yale, so that both teams will be on even footing...
...those who can naturally afford to secure recreation on Sundays by motor trips, at country clubs and on private grounds are easily able to do so, but the less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance to enjoy the day--or else an equal legal restriction that all shall stay at home. Boston Transcript...