Word: foster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does both greater national interest than over before, and the hysterical atmosphere of a tremendous crowd, undoubtedly runs counter to the more reasonable and less puerile attitude toward football which those who have the well-being of football as a college sport closest at heart are striving to foster. In becoming the greatest spectacle in American life, football has concerned itself too much with the interest of the spectators. Colossal stadiums have been build, rotogravure sections filled with pictures of individual players. The "Big Three", as they are termed, constituted the cradle of intercollegiate football. If, in this emergency, they...
That, since all four qualities enumerated above are necessary to the most capable leadership, Harvard cannot escape the obligation to foster the pursuit of all four in a manner properly proportioned to each student's individual needs...
...Patsy-Another comedy. By Barry Conners with Claiborne Foster. Goes to Chicago...
...will be its [the Federation's] mission to comb out of the world civilization those virtues which lend themselves to happiness and progress, and foster and cultivate them, and to make determined war upon those elements which retard or misdirect and which are hangovers of primitive days...
...Worcester, Mass., is a Roman Catholic college of renown-Holy Cross. In the college is a library, in the library a librarian. The latter, by recent appointment, is one Foster W. Stearns...