Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many alumni possessed of excellent intentions but of no educational philosophy, the great aim of outdoor college sports seemed to be to make a Roman holiday, to create a spectacle, to gain publicity for the college and glorify alumni reunions. In recent years we became fully aware of the abuses of such a system, and it is needless to rehearse them. College sports were becoming the enemies of college education...
...attitude on the part of the American public. An interest in athletics is natural and desirable but when commercialized to the present extent it loses something fundamental. Cities and towns maintain representative athletic teams for advertising purposes, spectators attend to wager on the outcome and players play for material gain. Sport has ceased to be sport; it has become an industry, with managers, capitalists, publicity agents, official publications and all the other features of any big business enterprise...
...finished college E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of this year's team, never was a great star, and yet he has won three Intercollegiate Mile Championships in four starts. L. O. Combs '26 had done 9.2 in the vault at school, and in his Senior year did 12.7, a gain of 3.5 in four years
Nothing, of course, can be done without the consent of the Eliot family. But sooner or later the proposal will gain headway to establish either an Eliot Museum or to dedicate some spot or structure to the great President's memory. The house in which he lived for so many years in Cambridge is not, like the Longfellow house, one of the architectural landmarks of the city. It lacks the charm of setting of the pre-Revolutionary houses along Brattle Street...
Cancer 92.6 91.9 Gain...