Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called for charging in, and making bodily contact by the third man going into the play. It is a personal foul in the amateur rules, four of which retire the player from the game. It is a mighty good rule too, as it serves to make the game much faster and cleaner...
These figures show conclusively that the percentage of the members of the College which come from outside New England is increasing much faster in recent years than it has in the past. In the year 1888-1889, 37.7 percent in the College came from outside New England. Ten years later it was 37.8; after another ten years it, was 39.2; and after another decade, in 1919-1920, it was 42.5, and this year, 1920-1921, it is 43.7 percent. That the increase of men coming from outside New England is still going on may be judged from the fact that...
...Freshman quintet. An experiment which will be tested in the game today is the shifting of P. Jenkins from the position of roving back to that of left forward. Jerkins, who has had considerable experience both as a basketball and as a football player, has been playing a faster, more aggressive game than any other member of the squad in practice recently and consequently is expected by the coaches to prove a high point scorer...
...chemists and geologists, or into the newer fields of industrial research. Still others will be found in literary work or social service. With the increasing recognition of the need of experts in American life, the field has greatly broadened and the demand for highly trained specialists has grown much faster than the supply. A university president once remarked that what we need is not narrow men but broad men sharpened to a point. That is the kind of men the Graduate School seeks to supply...
...believe that boxing is a natural sport for Americans. We borrowed it, of course, from the old world, but I think the youths of this country take to it so naturaly that they develop faster than elsewhere. I have found some excellent material since I started instructing at the University and in fact many of the boys in the classes have learned so rapidly that, in refereeing professional bouts, I have found many of the preliminary boxers do not know nearly so much about how to box as the boys in the classes. I do not attribute this to anything...