Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University in a speech on basketball, I recommended that representatives of all independent teams and representatives of professional leagues, and colleges, universities and amateurs sit in conference to discuss rules, and draft one code of basketball rules to be sent broadcast throughout the country in order to eradicate the lack of uniformity and irregularities that exist in the game today. If this is done basketball will be put on a firmer basis, and as football, baseball, golf, tennis and other sports, become standardized...
...underlying philosophy of this University, rather than to measure its fallings by standards created to suit the ideals of other colleges. It has become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England, to compare it--unfavorably, of course,--with the breezy lack of tradition of the West. And the hostility, the suspicion with which Harvard is regarded, is simply a part of that general contempt of the New America for an ancient--and eternal--ideal that stubbornly refuses to die in spite of the threats of democratic dogma...
...hardly noticed here, and are given a good time down at New Haven, the conclusions at which the members of the visiting team will in all probability arrive, are not hard to conceive. I know of specific instances in which valuable men have been lost to Harvard because of lack of hospitality. This is much less true now than formerly, but whereas our reception is now called "luke-warm", it was not very long ago that it might have appropriately been called "cool...
...starting charges. Queens men found the speed of their opponents too taking and in the second period lagged noticeably, so that single-man attacks were the result. Owen and Stillman were successful in stopping these, however. Both teams seemed out of condition, to which can be accounted their lack of spirit. Stewart and Ratheford made several individual rushes...
...candidates for the position of second assistant manager of the University track team will be called out. The competition will last approximately eight weeks, ending with the Intercollegiate Meet which will be held at Soldiers Field on May 27 and 28. Men will not be handicapped on account of lack of experience. The candidate standing second in the competition will be made assistant manager of the University cross-country team...