Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their prospects go, the committee may congratulate themselves on their project. The four greatest football teams in America meeting for three inter-sectional games for the first real national championship would be a spectacle equaled in magnitude only by such commercial affairs as the world's series or a heavyweight championship bout. And, from the point of view of the one hundred and twenty thousand spectators, this plan would result in some magnificent football. The committee has secured the endorsement of such demigods of the game as Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg and Andy Smith. The prestige of these men, aided...
...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 choose...
...keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world. But the burghers of Park Avenue, dreaming of a thousand empty bottles clanked against each other by a fiend's pitchfork, pulled the sheets up over their heads...
...administer the present enrolment limit to allow admission to Harvard to those men possessing in the greatest degree the qualities which make for leadership. This does not mean the lowering of present academic requirements, and the CRIMSON wants to make it particularly clear that it does not mean suspending these academic requirements in favor of the less tangible qualifications of character, personality, and future promise. What it does mean is to impose these tests in addition to academic requirements in order to reduce the Freshman class to its limit of one thousand...
...does not go on the assumption that all men are capable of equal perfection, nor that it would be desirable to reduce all men to a common denominator. The best physical specimens then, as now, will become leaders in athletics, just as the best mental specimens will become the greatest scholars. The benefit of the plan will lie in preventing warped development by calling attention to corrective work to meet a student's greatest need, whether in studies, in athletics, or in any other of what are now termed "outside activities...