Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carping Eye...
...since I enrolled as a reader. I like the whole paper and read it from cover to cover. One of the amusing pages is the LETTERS. Frontal attack, rude and discourteous, many letters seem even when accusing you of the same offenses. I fear some readers have a carping eye and are what I term piddling readers-they miss the flavor of the meat because they object to the pattern of the dish. More power to ye, Mr. Editor...
...sure, Robert Todd Lincoln is 82, an age at which any man is entitled to retire from the unblinking gaze of the public eye, but, even more, he has encouraged that eye to rest its glance elsewhere. He has always done the best things quietly, beginning with the selection of his father, in 1843, continuing through his education at the University of Illinois, Phillips Exeter and Harvard. The last of these he left in 1864 to go on the staff of General Grant. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox Court House. The day after...
...very pleasant experience and was enjoyed by all Harvard men present. There can, however, be little doubt that the playing of the game, although it is a fine game, by a small group of men has too large a part in the college life and in the public eye. These big final games partake to a great extent of the spectacles of ancient Rome, and it is no part of the business of a college to furnish impressive and large spectacles for sport fans...
...CRIMSON deplores the preponderance of space devoted to college football in the newspapers. The doings of professional football teams may, in the future, come so to fill the public eye as to remedy a large part of this evil. The custom of picking All-American teams is the last stage of that cheap aggrandizement through newspaper publicity which tends to create in students' minds a false sense of values. The CRIMSON, therefore, has discontinued this year its old custom of picking an All-Stadium team. The CRIMSON also deplores the habit of sporting writers to make college players the butt...