Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting off strong, the Freshmen struck first in the initial period, when Tim Reardon, fleet halfback, broke loose off right tackle and dashed 25 yards to score standing up. John Nesmith's kick for the extra point sailed wide of the uprights. The yearlings increased their lead by three points in the second period when George Roberts placekicked a beautiful field-goal from the 25-yard stripe...
Such a system as the above is carried even further in the English Universities, where captains of the "college" teams are chosen who also act as coaches, thus eliminating the extra cost of employing graduate students to carry out this...
There are many features in the present advisorial regime which thwart its efficacy and limit the scope of its beneficial activity. Chosen indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...
...work of the first committee may not involve a report, but its general objectives will be 1.) to arrange with the college authorities to allow Freshmen to eat a certain number of meals in the houses during the second half year without extra charge, and 2.) to advise Freshmen about the Houses and also about their field of concentration with reference to the Houses...
...attorneys for 134 of the nation's 149 Class I railroads, crying protest at what, to them, looked like a gross violation of the "due process of law" provision of the Constitution. The pension system would cost them $60,000,000 in its first year, more later. The extra burden, they declared, would break the back of many a tottering line...