Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday's half-hour tussle in the Stadium found Team A pitted against the first-year men. No account of scores was kept as the coaches halted play frequently to give individual instruction. The assignment work on the offensive is still dissatisfying, although some improvement over the showing against Bates has been made. Wood at the quarterback post in place of Putnam who was absent because of a late class, was given every opportunity to direct the team under various conditions. All plays received a good test against the Freshman line, which, incidentally, looked exceedingly good...
Figures covering the Yale Alumni Fund show that about 8,000 graduates contributed during the year ending June 30, 1929, and that since the establishment of the fund in 1890 it has given over four and a half millions to the University for current needs, at the same time building up a permanent endowment almost equal...
Yale's total operating expenses for the year were slightly over six millions, over three-fourths of which was for educational costs and administration. Maintenance and operation of the physical plant cost about one and a half million dollars...
...history of the last century and a half has shown that whenever a large proportion of the lower classes have risen up to demand better conditions, the prosperous classes have cried "communism". History has also shown that desire for true communism is not compatible with a good living. The textile worker in the South is not really a communist of the Brook Farm or Bolshevik type. It is merely the American love of labels that makes him one. When the level of living conditions in the South has been raised to that of the rest of the country, the cause...
...vast national business is a fact that has long been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni...