Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeble example to the next generation of football players and gives the outside world another chance to misjudge the colleges. Red Grange by choosing to become a successful machine, working or the pleasure of the horde, has killed whatever esteem he could have had among university men. Oberlander's jersey is still in his locker: Grange's faded blue hangs in a pawn shop...
...fifteen" which in November, 1875, first played against Yale, wore the crimson jersey with the white "H," are the distinctive feature of the University uniform today...
...some 25 years, beginning with 1879, canvas jackets were won over the jersey. Some of these jackets had the "H," others did not. Until 1892, the gridiron sweater, like that of the crew, was white with the "H," in crimson. In two, years, 1892 and 1893, the football sweater was crimson with the "H" in black, and thereafter the background was black and the "H' crimson as is now the case. In 1896, this last combination was confirmed by the Athletic Committee of the University...
Twelve men, honest and intelligent citizens of the Commonwealth of New Jersey, stood before a prisoner's dock on Monday night and, gazing steadfastly at a youth whose short existence has proved a muddle to himself and a menace to others, condemned him to death. Thus have they rid themselves of any popular conviction of injustice. In their opinion society will be better without the presence of this one disordered mind. No complaint, therefore, will arise from those who saw in the different outcome of a similar case in Chicago the absolute "miscarriage of justice". This court and its jurors...
...care, the vast spaces of the insane are being plotted by science. Every day new data are recorded, new hypotheses proved. But until the time comes when all this vast field is completely charted, justice must continue to grope blindly in the path of duty. Of course the New Jersey jury were sincere. Of course they acted as best they could in the light of their poor knowledge. But the accuracy of their decision must continue a mystery until this variable, this indeterminate insanity is brought by science within the understanding of human justice...