Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, with a team inferior to the present machine, Brown led the University by four points five minutes before the final whistle. It was only a desperate but well-organized march of 85 yards that saved the Crimson from defeat and gave the University a 9-7 victory. Coach Robinson has nearly a whole team of veteran substitutes to call upon so he will be able to keep fresh and experienced material in the line-up against the Crimson eleven...
...remedy this situation we must take the South on its own word that the negro is inferior, and we must give him all the education that he can take. We must suppress lynching, because it is an acknowledgment that we, with all our machinery of government, are not ready to apply to the negroes those principles of justice which are our most precious heritage...
...greatest improvement, however, is in the quality of the horses. Nineteen of the inferior animals have been disposed of and their places have been filled by 21 Montana ponies of the polo type. At present a polo practice cage is under construction in order that students may be able to learn the rudiments of stick work...
...hope to work out their salvation within its bounds; but they are completely disillusioned. They see themselves surrounded on every hand by a sentiment of antagonism which does not intend to be fair. They see themselves partly reduced to peonage, shut out from labor unions, forced to an inferior status before the courts, made subjects of public contempt, lynched and mobbed with impunity, and deprived of the ballot, their only means of social defense...
...mind "Viaduct View", with its Miss Twose who "was a very bleached and shapeless little person, who, somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...