Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grundy: It was a great mistake each State was given two Senators...
There is little to be gained now by calling attention to the many contests which regularly take place almost without the knowledge of anyone save the players themselves. Except, that there is a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that, despite cries of commercialism and over-emphasis of athletics, there are a large number of men who find pleasure in organized athletics just for the sake of the game itself...
Then while the Vagabond was waiting to start on the royal road to romance for his glorious adventure, the nation's watchful press jumped on the job. Reporters from one of the great American journals got word of the matter. And it did not take long for these mighty and powerful servants of the public to find a nefarious British plot back of the entire excursion--subsidiary of the undergraduate press...
Carnegie report enthusiasts may feel that the Western Union is out of touch with the best athletic thought of the time, since a cursory glance at the ten pep messages reveals at least eight of them as playing too great an emphasis on winning. In fact the compilers of the list frankly confess that its purpose is to "send the players out on the field with fire in their eyes and a keen determination to win." They have obviously failed to catch the amateur spirit and have made the mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which...
...instance which is dealt with in the volume concerns the administration of President Pierce, in 1855, when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. The Great American Desert was at that time a sizable obstacle in the way of transportation from the west to the east. Davis had, as Senator from Mississippi, conceived of the idea of inaugurating a camel route across the desert in order to relieve the situation, and when he became Secretary of War he secured an appropriation of $30,000 from Congress to carry out his scheme...