Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remotely connected with it can escape the searchlights of publicity. The extraordinary organization of college athletics, the amounts of money involved, and the quasi-public character of modern college games have given rise to a complicated machinery of control which would have never been necessary had athletics enjoyed a less prominent position in education. The exhaustive report of the Carnegie Foundation is but another monument to the complexity of the amateur problem...
...Parley, which Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan have signified their intention of attending, is viewed by Mr. Herter as "offering great hope, not only in the solution of problems left untouched by the 1922 Washington conference, such as cruisers of 10,000 tons and less, submarines, destroyers, and the like, but also in regard to the extension of the benefits of the Washington treaty by delaying the replacement of capital ships...
...these, 55,151 70.2 per cent are holders of degree of one sort or another while the other 29.8 per cent attended the University without receiving any recognition of their efforts. The 1929 Yale Alumni Directory lists 35,825 living Yale men or 19,326 less than Harvard can boast...
...Freshman, who gave fierce battle throughout, and was even leading two sets to one, at one point in the match. In the fourth set, however, Coggeshall rallied, and took the set at love. In the final set, the score was again 6-4, the victor finally overcoming his less experienced opponent...
...With the disappearance of the isolated college and the reduction of American life to a more general common denominator, the modern undergraduate as a rule does not wish to be, much less to appear to be, a collegian. In his own opinion, he and the man of the world are as like as two peas. He abhors the collegiate; and if he is so, there is this extenuating circumstance in his favor: He is so in spite of himself...