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Word: heighth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coaches drawing enormous salaries, nor advertising campaigns to attract crowds of thousands. We simply desire to play in a contest with teams which are like our own. Baseball and possibly track could be dragged out along informal lines, but to try to have an informal crew would be the heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department advocate them. Second, the colleges which have maintained an intercollegiate system have not shown that their patriotic fervor or their interest in their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC SITUATION | 2/1/1918 | See Source »

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