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The assumption that it lies within the power of the high school coach to prevent the impending catastrophe is rather a reversion of cause and effect. The secondary school has long favored mimicking the college so far as athletic policy is concerned. It is rather unfair for the big brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE SINNED AGAINST-- | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Nock has been lecturing in many universities in the East and middle West. "I enjoy the travel but I do not like your Pullman cars, they irritate me," he said. He was recently at Cornell and in the near future expects to go to New York. "That is something one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS HARVARD YARD HAS CHARMING ATMOSPHERE | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

Joe, I believe, is the only man who could correctly forecast the impending struggle. He, alas, is gone. (Fine fellow, Joe, shame he drank.) I can only attempt to fill the gap by predicting that very few seats will be vacant in the Stadium, that no matter what happens, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Metropolitan Critics Concede Slight Edge to Still Untried Green--Broken Bottles Will Have Edge on Broken Fields | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

At Marion. When the warning siren blew on the Marion Manufacturing Co.'s mill in Marion, N. C., one morning last week, Sheriff Oscar F. Adkins began to make a speech at the mill gates. He and several deputies had been up all night, warned by the mill officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Low lay the Treasury Department all summer. Homecoming legislators took their turns for customs inspection, opened every trunk and bag, paid duty on every taxable trinket. Last week Assistant Secretary Lowman feeling that the disturbance had thoroughly blown over, issued a new order, again granting "courtesy-of-the-port" to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blown Over | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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