Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first year men are under the control of a group of men who, except for the Freshman deans, have other interests which must come ahead of the Freshmen's welfare. They are tutors, or instructors, or graduates students, or professors first, and advisers to the Freshmen second. So long as a Freshman is not involved in disciplinary or scholastic difficulties they have no reason even for making his acquaintance...
Just how much the race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
Saturday's races revealed the lack of endurance of both University crews occasioned by constant rough water in the Basin which greatly reduced the number of long, hard rows. As a result Coach Brown is now starting his men in earnest on the long grind in preparation for June...
...comment on them. Ownership that has a financial interest in the public domain, over which there is steady controversy between private operation and the Government, has never proved effective in the manufacture of a disinterested or reliable newspaper. The fact that such type of ownership is usually concealed as long as possible is another proof that it is often dangerous in its purpose." Said the New York Evening Post: "No matter how much Mr. Graustein may protest, the sound sense of the public will know that it is bad public policy to have an important and constantly increasing group...
...freed from financial dependence, the benefit of the student body at large rather than the attraction of big gates would have a chance to become the ideal. Intercollegiate contests might even become subordinated to intramurals, which, in the last analysis, are the most important branch of college athletics. As long as intramural sports are dependent on varsity earnings they will necessarily occupy the subordinate position...