Word: exonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine papers which remain in the contest were announced last night as the Mercersburg News, the Choate News, the Hotchkiss Record, the Hill School News, the Taft Papyrus, the Loomis Log, the Riverdale Review, the Exonian, and the Peddie News. Most of the sample issues submitted by these papers were printed at various times during the year. Each of them will be read carefully by all of the judges, rediuked according to the traditional custom of the CRIMSON, and finally judged. With the red-inked papers will be sent critical suggestions by the judges to the editors of each...
Coach A. W. Samborski '25 has discovered a new left guard in Lewis who has come to the front in the last two weeks and will answer the opening whistle with La Rue to ward off the Exonian attack...
...editors of the Exonian have made an original and arresting contribution to the current discussion of football in American colleges. Attacking the problem from their own special point of view, that of the student casting about to determine the institution he wishes to enter, they have reduced to precise statistics what has long been only a conjecture,--the fact that success in football exercises a preponderant influence over the minds of schoolboys in their choice of a university...
Interested in the current discussion on the overemphasis of football, enterprising editors of the Exonian at Phillips Exeter Academy have delved into the statistics of Senior classes for the last six years at the school, and have figured percentages which may very well be taken as typical of other preparatory schools in the vicinity of Harvard...
...itself, and which should never be associated with any sport, are removed, football can hardly be regarded as an unmitigated good." Undergraduates representing many colleges at the Wesleyan parley, with the exception of one, in a personal vote approved a radical readjustment of the present schedule system. And the Exonian, at Exeter, reveals that statistics prove football to be the decisive factor in determining the institution many of its graduates enter...