Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talkies. He is to make his first talking picture in the Spring. "The talking pictures are a howling success," he said. "In the end, the success or failure of a movie is judged by the box office returns it brings, and in this respect the talkies have surely made good. The talkies are now just in their infancy. If one compares the automobile of 20 years ago to the present model and then judges the talkies by the same rate of development one can imagine what they will soon amount...
...suffering from over-strict officiating...One evil seems to be the practise of most officials of working schoolboy and college games at practically the same time. While one set of rules seems to be satisfactory for both games, certainly a far different officiating technique is necessary and the good schoolboy official is not at all satisfactory for college work...
Commenting on the proposed conference, at which an attendance of approximately 20 is expected, Coach E. Wachter of Harvard declared, "The duty of a good official is to keep the game fast, clean, and under control. By that I do not mean that it should be a game of indoor football; but a great many officials have been too strict in handling a game. At present many games are being won from the foul line instead of from the floor. A uniform type of official who will speed up the action is needed; and I believe that the meeting...
...hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed for the lion's share of the good things...
...mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this...