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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Big Green athletes swoop down from the hills of Hanover, or the Sons of Old Eli invade America's Number One University, hospitable Harvard furnishes them a quiet night's rest in some comfortable Boston hotel. After a night's sleep that may or may not have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HOSPITALITY | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

The advantages that all concerned would derive from such an arrangement must seem obvious. The Crimson's opponents would be able to take their meals and sleep near the location of their particular contest, not only making the trip to Cambridge easier and more pleasant, but also allowing them more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HOSPITALITY | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

However, as 95 per cent of the money used for financing University athletics comes from gate receipts, either some generous endowment must be forthcoming or else burly Western gladiators must be imported to make up a super-football machine, if the much-needed structure is to become more than a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HOSPITALITY | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

It is obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sociologist Lashes Academic Faddism; Blasts "Personality Plus" Professors | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

When asked if he would try to regain his lost laurels, Withington said, "I'm not up to swallowing any more of those things. In the first place, I got entirely too many complaints; and in the second place, I think Harvard can do much better things than swallow live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT EATS THREE FISH TOPPING WITHINGTON RECORD | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

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